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LodgeCraft is an
Authorized Dealer Since 1988 LodgeCraft online furnishings showrooms offer a wide selection of the finest quality furnishings for the bedroom, living room, dining room, and office. With over twelve years experience in this specialty field, LodgeCraft Log Furniture provides our customers a proven, hard to find product and service with the systems to back it up. Our sales staff knows rustic furnishings and the lodge lifestyle while delivering this standard of service throughout North America on time and within budget. History Of Old Hickory Log Furniture Company
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 were a pioneer without furnishings, you soon realized that this amazing hardwood sapling was ideal for chair and table frames. Thus was born the log furniture design. |
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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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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 this log furniture 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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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. 
