10/15/2023
In 1907 J. W. Caswell and Winifred Runyan organized the Caswell-Runyan Company for the purpose of manufacturing cedar chests as a commercial article and Huntington was selected as the place for the factory. The original plant consisted of a one story building 150 x 200 with dry kilns 36 x 75. It was thought at the time that the factory would be large enough to produce all the cedar chests that might be used in the world.
In the beginning the company employed from thirty to forty people. In the fall of 1924 six hundred people were employed, and the product is sold over the entire United States. The cedar chest is recognized as a standard piece of household furniture. Its utility has been established by investigation of the part of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. https://whistlererin.livejournal.com/124616.html
Here is your chance to own a piece of that history. Find this beautiful chest at Anthro Apothecary in Tecumseh, Michigan.
