forged in fire...
The blacksmith shop at the Oakville Complex in rural Carroll County in northwest Illinois. Oakville was a small village in the early 1900's with a store,school, church, and cemetery. The schoolhouse closed in 1945,only it and the adjoining cemetery are original to the settlement. Also surviving is a stone mansion built in the late 1800's by one of the founders of the settlement....
forged in fire...
The blacksmith shop at the Oakville Complex in rural Carroll County in northwest Illinois. Oakville was a small village in the early 1900's with a store,school, church, and cemetery. The schoolhouse closed in 1945,only it and the adjoining cemetery are original to the settlement. Also surviving is a stone mansion built in the late 1800's by one of the founders of the settlement....