True Blacksmith Shop, Main Street, Cumberland, Maine
Mary Sweetser recalls Samuel True’s blacksmith shop in the 1850s in History of the Town of Cumberland:
“A blacksmith’s shop stood very near the well and a big elm tree on what is now the property of Fred Adams. The old familiar sign, SAMUEL TRUE, BLACKSMITH with a prancing black horse painted at one end and a horseshoe at the other was fastened near the edge of the roof over the doors…. Colonel True and his son Edward carried on the business for many years….”
In addition to blacksmithing, True served as the town’s postmaster for 26 years.
