LIVINGSTON — If you think wooden axles and wheels went out with the horse-and-buggy days, Jem Blueher will set you straight. Blueher, 43, is among a handful of people restoring old axles and wheels ...

Most of the wagon-restoration and wheelwright work - Blueher's domain - is done in a fenced-in yard behind the shop. Stacks of rusted wagon wheels, oak and steel hubs, withered wooden axles, ...

LIVINGSTON -- When it comes to being obsolete, typewriter salesmen, bowling pin setters and iron lung repairmen have nothing on wheelwrights. People sometimes joke about Jem Blueher's seemingly ...

EXETER — Perhaps one of the last wheelwright shops in the state is in dire need of repairs and time could leave this building, essential to early-American life, in rubble. The Rollins Wheelwright Shop ...

The Rancho Bernardo Historical Society is embarking on a new endeavor to help it illustrate the area’s past — volunteers are going to build a mud wagon replica. Poway resident Richard Thorpe, who has ...

During the first decades of our county's history, some of the earliest local industries included gristmills and blacksmith shops. The gristmills, located alongside streams and rivers for the purpose ...