sic transit gloria mundia:

Unfortunately, we lost a real blacksmith treasure here in NYC a number
of years ago. In the then nominated "Sandy Ground Historic District"
(by Schuyler, et al,  I think, a tech on some of the surveys) on
Staten Island, said more recently to be New York State's and America's
first "free black" community (ca 1829?) there was an old time
blacksmith shop. As that area, closer to southern end of the island
and Tottenville, NY, the land developed in a land boom in the 1980's
(the Verrazzano Bridge opened ca 1963 from Brooklyn, (named after the
famous explorer first to name the Palisades an escarpment which
geolists 100's of years later confirmed, opened up what, was once also
where "bad cops" were sent, and orphans) and parts of it were
developed (and/or yet again speculated). Unfortunately it burnt down,
mysteriously, before it could be properly recorded and inventoried. I
am not sure if it remains as an archaeological site.

Incidentally, the Hopewell Village Foundry in Pennsylvania (cast
cannons for Washington and produced its own unit and supplies for the
Valley Forge encampment, later a 1840's box stove producer from molds)
used to use aluminium in the old hearth on Sundays, the water driven
bellows (two with a race from far away) would be used in the blast and
the aluminum allowed to come out on the casting floor (where little
"pigs" once were of iron) and into sandbox molds for the box stove
parts, impressed form the original. Erroneously (?) also called
"franklin stoves" they were small boxes that sat on the floor and
changed cooking habits its said somewhere.

George Myers