The blacksmith shop is a reproduction of the Custer Blacksmith Shop. The equipment came from the shop of the late Abe Nelson and from a shop located in Pentwater. The Pentwater Blacksmith Shop equipment was donated by Jerome Jorissen. This was one of the first buildings constructed to create White Pine Village. The chestnut tree next to the Blacksmith Shop was donated from a resident of Scottville. Like other smiths - coppersmith, silversmith, gunsmith, etc. - the blacksmith specializes in working with wrought iron. Because he works with iron that is comparatively dull or dark in appearance, he is aptly called a "blacksmith". This term differentiates him from the whitesmith or tinsmith, who works with tin-plated iron.