Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Home Sweet Home--Manufacturing

Prompt: What industry was your town/area noted for in past years?

Industries

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Since I'm rural. Five miles from nearest small places, 16 miles from nearest medium communities, and 25 to 35 miles from nearest larger cities, kind of settles it.

When I was 30- or 40-years younger there were some Oil refineries in the area. Not to close, not too far away to travel back and forth in one day. They are gone now. There were also furniture factories and a foam factory. All are gone now.

I worked as an assistant to a secretary in an intern capacity, in a factory, that made church pews, when I was a senior in high school. Wow, about 60 years ago. That factory is no longer in the area. Other places I worked for short periods of time during my life: one of the furniture factories, the boat factory, and a donut shop.

None of the chair factories or furniture factories are here anymore. Some went out of business, others moved to Southern States in the USA.

There is a Boat factory still putting out boats.

Other manufacturing in the area include: a Dog Food factory, tool design, exotic metal fabrication, lumber, hardwood, floor materials, Feed mills that serve the farming community by taking in crops and turning the crops into feed for animals.

I probably left out some manufacturing lots of small business in the area. Easy to drive to included: pewter making, pottery, Amish quilt and blankets, candy making, cake baking.

Because the area is so rural, there are lots of people willing to run a small business from home.

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