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Old Hickory Furniture
Old Hickory
Furniture Co. has been manufacturing its line of rustic furniture since
the 1890's.
You can find Old Hickory's furniture in
many of our national parks, countless restaurants, lodges and
homes around the world.
Old Hickory handcrafts each
piece or furniture with attention to detail, the careful matching of
parts, the difficult assembly with mortise and tenon, and the meticulous
hand weaving process. Old Hickory Furniture's products are unique,
comfortable, and very durable.
To
view the furniture call Harry Horner at (760) 765-3336.
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. As the
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're pioneer without furniture,
you soon realize that this amazing hardwood sapling made for ideal chair
and table frames. 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 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. Others in
the Martinsville area studied Richardson's products and banded together
in 1892 in an abandoned church, producing hickory sapling furniture as a
full-time business. They chose "Old Hickory" as the company name, the
same nickname as the late President Jackson. When the
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. Today's Old
Hickory combines designs from the company's history along with more
contemporary applications for home. Yet the process of handcrafting each
piece remains very much the same. Attention to detail, the careful
matching of parts, the difficult assembly with mortise and tenon, and
the meticulous hand weaving process, make Old Hickory Furniture's
products unique, comfortable, and very durable. After one hundred years,
old-fashioned care continues at Old Hickory Furniture Company, the home
of America's genuine, original furniture.
The
History of Old Hickory Furniture
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