Nailed it!

Took some time out yesterday to volunteer at one of my all-time favorite local museums:  The Lincoln Pioneer Village in Rockport, Indiana.  If you haven't been there, it's worth the trip. 

Jim, a fellow historical reenactor, and I went to deliver some homemade beeswax candles and to hang a few things around the cabins there -- using period-correct nails. 

(Nails.  Such a simple thing, really.  Been around a long time. Nails in their crudest form date back to 3000 B.C. The Romans hand-forged them and they have been found in excavations and sunken ships from the period 500 A.D.)

Back to "1816" and the Pioneer Village. I brought them some nails.  Not just any nails, but some of my Tremont Nails. 

Tremont Nail Company is the oldest nail company in the United State.  In fact, it's one of the oldest companies in the United States.  They operate out of an original building that was constructed by shipwrights in the early 1800's as a cotton mill. It was partially burned by the British in the War of 1812, then rebuilt and purchased by Isaac and Jared Pratt in 1819 to manufacture nails.  There are 60 nail machines in the mill, many over 125 years old, still cutting nails today the same way they did a long ago.

Hard to imagine that a company producing something as simple as a nail would be one of the oldest companies operating in the United States.  Especially since there are more advanced ways to fasten things (i.e. screws).  

But, there Tremont is.  A quality product that fulfills a need.  Excellent customer service. 

Seize -- and nail -- the day,
David Kuhn