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From the vault: G. Krug & Son, Baltimore’s oldest blacksmith

From the vault: G. Krug & Son, Baltimore’s oldest blacksmith

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What’s a 19th-century blacksmith shop doing in the middle of Baltimore? That’s the question on the mind of many visitors who wander into G. Krug & Son, a blacksmith shop on Saratoga Street near Lexington Market. The owner once boasted that there can hardly be a building in Baltimore that doesn’t contain something from his shop, even if it was only a nail.

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