Closed except for Historic Events and
Re-enactments
Wednesday thru Friday 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Weekends
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Every weekend
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed except for Historic Events and
Re-enactments
Wednesday – Friday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Weekends
10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Weekends
10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Weekends
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
*Call for additional weekday openings in April, Sept., Oct., & Nov.
Closed except for Historic Events and
Re-enactments
March, April, May and Labor Day thru Mid-December
Weekends
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Memorial Day thru Labor Day
Wednesday - Sunday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m
With membership card – 10% off at General Store EXCEPT food.
Free member admission to Historic Buildings on weekends when a fee is charged.
May thru end of November, Saturday and Sunday only. Admission charge of $3.00 per adult, $2.00 per child 6-12 years of age, 5 years and under – no charge. Special discounts apply to seniors and disabled visitors with appropriate New Jersey State Park passes.All Allaire Village, Inc. members will be admitted to the Historic Village free of charge. Admission is free to all events except as noted.
Memorial Day
through
Labor Day Weekends
$5.00 per car
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Christ Church Chapel | Blacksmith Shop | Tinsmith Shop | Collier's Mound | Blast Furnace | Carpenter's Shop | Carriage House | Mule Barn | Slaughter House
 Constructed in 1836, today's Blacksmith Shop replaced an earlier wooden smithy shop first built for the Monmouth Furnace. The new Howell Works shop, located on the banks of the Mill Pond, pos -sessed four forges making it one of the largest ever built in New Jersey. The original Monmouth Furnace shop was located between the present General Store and the Furnace stack.
The Howell Works blacksmiths were an integral part of life in the Village, being primarily responsible for the shoeing of the teams of draft animals and the repairing of vehicles, tools and other items necessary to operations at the Village. One could also expect the blacksmiths to continually be mending or even making specialized tools for the various trades that were commenced within the works.
The Howell Works property was the centre of a local transportation network with stage coaches, mail routes and steam boat connections leaving form the Village. The now peaceful streets were a bustle with teamster traffic transporting goods, both from the Works and the local community to James Allaire's docks and warehouse facilities at Eatontown Dock (now Oceanport) and at Red Bank. Work sledges, used year round to haul bog iron ore and lumber, were a regular site and needed their runners kept in good condition. Wagons, carriages and carts were operating regularly to and from the village. Add to this a constant flow of traffic to and from the Company Store, believed to be the largest in the state at its time of construction.
Today visitors to the Blacksmith's Shop enjoy demonstrations by costumed historic interpreters. Visitors will see how hand made nails are made, tools are repaired, iron moulding is done as well as seeing the operation of the bellows and learning how the fires are stoked and banked. Younger visitors to the Blacksmith Shop will gain an understanding of the guild system and may even become an apprentice smithy during their visit.
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