The Marsh Wheeling Stogie Co
Rhamlin
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I know they are just machine mades but ever since I heard of them I've been looking for it from the river. Since they was from my home state.Recently read they are in Frankfort Ind soi gave up ever seeing the place. Well today I saw this and just had to get a pic.
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the term "stogie" came from this company. the settlers moving west that started out in West Virginia/Ohio area often passed by this factory and would get cigars from them. the long thin cigars (usually close to a box pressed lancero of todays terminology) came in boxes that were easy to pack in the Conestoga wagons. the shape became the standard cigars for those traveling west. "stogies" is the vernacular for the shape of those cigars.
This is why I love this place. Awesome story.
Guys. you should check out a machine rolling cigar factory if you ever get a chance. The best genius of the 19th century goes into those machines. Quality clever work.
Check this machinery out. One look at all those big leather drive belts and it's easy to see how that old dog got his tail docked.
i couldnt find a shot from the movie itself.
Very cool, there is one of the last steam powered lumber mills nearby that I have always meant to go tour but never have.
Also, Mark Twain talks about Wheeling cigars in his autobiography, mentions finding them "about right" and buying them "by the barrel"
I might try a fiver of one of their natural leaf cigars just for the heck of it; but I am not inclined to spring for fifty.
Thanks for the link. All kinds of history today.