Did you know that DeKalb is home to some impactful history? DeKalb was home to Joseph Farwell Glidden, the inventor of one of the most widely used type of barbed wire! Joseph Farwell Glidden’s invention helped change the history of American West,...
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DeKalb-Barbed-Wire-FactoriesDownload Barb Fence Company | 1875 – Located at 128-140 South Second Street, DeKalb. The former Illinois Historic Preservation Agency always considered this factory to be the world’s first barbed wire factory....
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