The entire Baxter family would move to Mansfield to work for the new Baxter Stove Company, which was incorporated on May 31, 1883, with a capital stock of $60,000. In August of 1883, the company sent its first shipment, containing 62 stoves, to Fort…
The plant was originally built in 1908-09 and formally opened in June of 1909 as the National Sheet Steel Co. A few months later, the company was reorganized as the National Rolling Mill Co. In 1914, the plant was bought by the Davey Brothers and…