Manufacture of Tacks, Brads & Sprigs
From The Chronicle, Volume 1, No. 3 March 1934 By Earle T. Goodnow The following information was secured from a letter of May 30th, 1832, written at Abington, Mass., by Benj. Hobart to the Secretary of State of the United States. The making of tacks by hand commenced in the town of Abington about 1770. …