Schroeder family businesses

ID: 2732 ~ Source: Historic Madison, Inc. ~ Creator: John Stacier ~ Date: 2004
This file appears in: Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
Schroeder family businesses

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

By Historic Madison, Inc.
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…