Next time you’re at the Golden Gate Bridge, Disney World, or on the streets of Chicago, look down and you'll spot the legacy of a post-Civil War iron master who turned a Wisconsin plow forge into a fundamental part of urban America, with a little help from shop pencils.
Read more143 Years of Death in the Family
Generations of Haertel brothers marked the graves of countless upper-midwesterners, making a name for themselves that is literally still set in stone. Heck, their pencils are even granite colored.
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