Schroeder family businesses
This file appears in: Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
The Schroeders' main product was saddletrees, though they also made, at various times, clothespins, hames (the wooden frames for horse collars), work gloves and even lawn furniture as they adapted to decreased demand for saddletrees.
This file appears in: Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
Almost untouched since the day it closed in 1972, the Ben Schroeder Saddletree factory is the nation's last intact 19th century shop where craftsman built the inner workings of saddles. Sawdust from the last run of saddletrees and the internal…