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Barbed Wire Manufacturing 1837-1938

931 West Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, IL , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 41° 55' 52.380012", -88° 46' 14.099988"
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This house, built in 1861, was the home of Joseph Glidden, who in 1873 invented barbed wire fencing. With Phineas W. Vaughn he perfected a machine to manufacture it. DeKalb became the manufacturing center for barbed wire, significant in the development of the west.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
   
 
 
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