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Furniture is an Authorized Dealer Since 1988 LodgeCraft online furnishings
showrooms offer a wide selection of the finest quality log furniture for the bedroom,
living room, dining room, and office. We are proud to present to you this selection
of the Old Hickory Furniture Company. Old Hickory Log Furniture Company - About Us
As these saplings struggled towards the sunlight above, they grew straight and tall - yet the diameter did not exceed two to three inches - even after twenty to thirty years of growth. If you're a pioneer without furnishings, you soon realize that this amazing hardwood sapling is ideal for chair and table frames. |
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You could soak it in boiling water and bend it to make hoops. You could weave it's inner bark to make seats and backs, and you could see new trees sprout from the same stump - over and over again. And so it became the material of choice for our ancestor's homes. In southern Indiana, a newly transplanted North Carolinian, Billy Richardson, began to make hickory chairs and sell them on Saturdays on the town square in Martinsville. Legend has it that he and his father had made the original Andrew Jackson hoop chairs for the President's home, The Hermitage. |
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| Others in the Martinsville area studied Richardson's products and banded together in 1892 in an abandoned church, producing hickory sapling furnishings as a full-time business. They chose "Old Hickory" as the company name, the same nick-name as the late President Jackson. When the company incorporated in 1898, a full line of products was available. Shipping across the country to homes and resorts - the company also began furnishing nearly all of the new national park lodges, including the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone National Park. The dining chairs in the main hall are the very same chairs shipped and installed in 1906. |
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 Today's Old Hickory combines designs from the company's history along with
more contemporary applications for home. Yet the process of hand-crafting each piece
remains very much the same. Attention to detail, the careful matching of parts, the
difficult assembly with mortise and tenon, and the meticulous hand weaving process, make
Old Hickory products unique, comfortable, and very durable. After one hundred
years, old fashioned care continues at the Old Hickory Company, the home of America's
genuine, original furniture.
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In the early 1800's,
as the pioneers crossed the Appalachian Mountains, among the many discoveries they made
was the hickory sapling. This small diameter tree grew throughout the Midwest in
groups of twenty to thirty, surrounded by much larger trees. 
