Joseph F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center
921 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 756-7904
 

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Two views of the famous coffee mill used by Joseph F. Glidden and Phineas Vaughan in 1874, in Glidden's home in DeKalb, IL, to form barbs for the first Glidden barbed-wire fencing.


Photograph courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution

 

 

 

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