Submitted by: Betsy Maisel
The world's largest clothespin factory was once located at Richwood, originally this was the mill of the Dodge's Clothes Pin factory established by Alfred Wallace Dodge also established factories at Coudersport, Pennsylvania and Lincoln, New Hampshire, it became the Steele-Wallace Corporation of St. Louis in 1915. In 1921, it was sold to a New England firm.Behind the pin factory is the former Georgia-Pacific sawmill which sold to the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company. |
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