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In 1919, J.W. Longaberger began an apprenticeship with The Dresden Basket Factory. After the company failed during the Great Depression, [7] Longaberger continued to make baskets on the weekends. Eventually, he and his wife Bonnie Jean (Gist) Longaberger raised enough money to purchase the closed basket factory and start a business of their own ...
Dave W. Longaberger (1934–1999) was an American businessman who founded the now-defunct Longaberger Company, which made handcrafted maple wood baskets and accessories and became notable in the Newark, Ohio area for the "Big Basket Building" that became the company headquarters in 1997. [1]
Zanesville residents Curt and Dee Luburgh courted the owners of the Longaberger Homestead in Frazeysburg for three years before they finally got a yes to take over the full 37 acres.“The last ...
The plant survived the collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s, which shuttered famous plants, like the Homestead Steel Works in Homestead, or the National Tube Works in Mckeesport, and became the last integrated mill in the valley, an area which once contained 90,000 people employed in the basic steel industry. [10]
van keuren homestead burned by british oct. 17, 1777. rebuilt and occupied by direct descendants of original owner since then. 14: colonel deyo home nys 55 e. of traffic circle lloyd: colonel deyo home erected 1805 built and occupied by colonel jacob deyo 8th regiment, new york state guard 15: elting homestead historic marker for the elting ...
The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire is a two-story, clapboard, connected farm built in 1884. [5] It was the home of poet Robert Frost from 1900 to 1911. Today it is a New Hampshire state park in use as a historic house museum. [6]
The Homestead Museum also includes "La Casa Nueva" – a spectacular example of Spanish Colonial Revival style, built by the Temple family between 1922 and 1927.The family's own design was drawn up by the well-known Los Angeles architectural firm of Walker and Eisen, although in 1924, Beverly Hills-based architect Roy Selden Price was hired to reconfigure the design.
The John Jay Homestead State Historic Site is located at 400 Jay Street in Katonah, New York. The site preserves the 1787 home of Founding Father and statesman John Jay (1745–1829), one of the three authors of The Federalist Papers and the first Chief Justice of the United States .