Renderbrook-Spade Blacksmith Shop -- Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock TX
N 33° 35.336 W 101° 53.055
14S E 232325 N 3720308
The Renderbrook-Spade Ranch blacksmith shop is on display at the Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock TX
Waymark Code: WMV5Q6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2017
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The highly utilitarian but extremely necessary blacksmith's shop from the Renderbrook-Spade Ranch is on display at the Ranching Heritage Center, on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock TX.
An interpretive sign nearby reads as follows:
“RENDERBROOK-SPADE BLACKSMITH SHOP
1917
This simple board and batten shop came from the Mitchell County, Texas, ranch once owned by Isaac L. Ellwood, one of the first developers of barbed wire. The well-used building sits on a foundation of fieldstone and contains a forge, and will, hammer, drill press, large and small grind stones, tongs and other equipment necessary to maintain a ranching operation. The structure represents the time when a man worked as a farrier, mechanic, repair man and artist, creating tools such as branding irons and horseshoes that ranch people needed to survive in the Old West.
Group that erected the marker: Ranching Heritage Center
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
3121 4th St
Lubbock, TX
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