County: DeKalb
Location: The marker is located in DeKalb,
in front of the Glidden Home at 931 West Lincoln Highway (IL
Route 38).
N 41º 55.873
W 088º 46.235
Erected: 01/01/1955 Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society
This house, built in 1861, was the home of Joseph Glidden, who in 1873 invented barbed wire fencing. With Phineas W. Vaughn he perfected a machine to manufacture it. DeKalb became the manufacturing center for barbed wire, significant in the development of the west.
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