Jerry Darnell starts a fire in Mill Creek Forge near Seagrove, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2022 by Dan Routh)
Starting Up the Forge
Category: Blacksmith
Mill Creek Forge
Jerry Darnell at work at Mill Creek Forge and Blacksmith Shop near Seagrove, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2021 by Dan Routh)
At the Forge
(Photographs copyright 2019 by Dan Routh)
Working metal. Near Seagrove, North Carolina.
Sculptor
(Photographs copyright 2019 by Dan Routh)
Jim Gallucci, metal sculptor. Greensboro, North Carolina.
Anvil
(Photograph copyright 2018 by Dan Routh)
Blacksmith anvil. Seagrove, North Carolina.
Blacksmith Tools
(Photograph copyright 2015 by Dan Routh)
Still life. Seagrove, North Carolina.
At the Forge
Blacksmith Jerry Darnell works at his Mill Creek Forge near Seagrove, North Carolina.
(Photograph copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)
Blacksmith
Master blacksmith Jerry Darnell works in his shop, Mill Creek Forge, on Busbee Rd near Jugtown in Moore County, North Carolina. Jerry is a retired high school math teacher who now produces colonial style iron works full time. He started working with metal when he was young, learning welding and metal work from his father, and then learning blacksmithing from several nationally known smiths. Jerry has been forging metal for some 40 years. He now also teaches blacksmithing at several national craft schools such as the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. For more information on his business and his beautiful work, go to http://www.millcreekforge.com/.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
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