Treble Hook

ID: 2248 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: 2019
This file appears in: Pearl City
Treble Hook

Barnett Bass II made this trebel hook by hand. He bent heavy gauge wire with a modified kitchen fork and a holding device that he made specifically for the manufacture of such hooks.

This file appears in: Pearl City

By Knox County Public Library
The name “Pearl City” originated sometime between 1900 and the early 1930s, when the mussel fishing industry here sparked a “pearl rush.” This stretch of the Wabash River was once filled with people, mostly squatters, who lived in tents, shanties,…