(Located on the comer diagonally across Market Street from the Samuel R. Dunlap home, herewith listed as Site No. 8.)
Johnston Small was a noted blacksmith and metal worker who had developed a secret process for hardening and tempering tool steel that was used to make tools for the Glass Factories of Belgium and Czechoslovakia. His particular specialty drew a clientele from far beyond the borders of his own town.
He was a descendant of a German immigrant named Lorenz Schmahl, who had come to America in 1743, making a settlement in York County, Pennsylvania. Later in this country the family surname was Anglisized into Small.