Ohio Blue Tip Match Company

Ohio Blue Tip Match Company

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1947. Grande Ave. (U.S. 160), 5 miles west of town

Belching smokestacks and screeching whistles announce the town's major industry, which annually whittles some four million board feet of aspen trees into matchsticks. These are shipped to Wadsworth, Ohio, and coated with combustible phosphorous tips, dyed blue.

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