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Mr. Thorpe who ran this shop came to Metamora from Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He and his family left Pennsylvania to go to the California gold fields, but never got any further than Metamora. After a brief return to Pennsylvania, they finally settled in Metamora, where he became a blacksmith and taught the art to his seven sons. The locally known Thorpe offspring was Christian Haring Thorpe who engaged in blacksmithing, undertaking and hardware. |
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It is interest to note that there is no historic designation number for this building. Although this is a historic site and structure, the building was not excluded solely on the basis of its physical condition. However, alterations which obliterated its historic integrity may have kept the building from inclusion in the inventory of the Indiana Historic Landmarks Division in their interim report of September 1978.
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