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Caption: Marker detail: Mechanics' Corral Illustration
Additional Description: Left:
• Two large carpenter shops
• Blacksmith shops for shoeing livestock
• Storeroom for wood and iron to repair wagons
• Storeroom for charcoal

Center:
• Two "good rooms" where four mechanics lived
• Kitchen with stove, range, and bake oven
• Two small storerooms
• Dining room with two tables large enough to feed the 32 mechanics who boarded here
• Mechanics' living quarters

Right:
• Two saddle makers in the saddler shop
• Fire fighting tools, buckets, and axes
• A harness room to wash, clean, and repair tack
• One metalworker in the tin shop
• Two painters and their paint shops
• Coopers making and mending barrels
• Two forges where a blacksmith and his striker repaired wagons
• Four men working in the wheelwright shop
• Steam engine house
Submitted: May 1, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p519583
File Size: 1.764 Megabytes

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