BARBED WIRE MANUFACTURING 1873 - 1938

 

Located City of Dekalb 931 West Lincoln Highway north side of street next to florist Coordinates Lat N 41 55.874 " Lon W 88 46.235 "  

 

 

BARBED WIRE MANUFACTURING 1873 - 1938

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.

ERECTED BY THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1955

 

 

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