Historic Markers - Barbed Wire Manufacturing, 1837-1938 IL67

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Barbed Wire Manufacturing, 1837-1938 IL67

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.

US Alt. 30, west of Dekalb DeKalb County Illinois.


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