The Hoyt Bending Works was located at what is now Hunters Lodge. The Hoyt Bending Works at Delaware was built by Joseph Smith, Charles I. Hoyt, and John H. Hoyt about 1890 and acquired by John H. Hoyt about 1898 as sole owner and operator manufacturing hammer handles, whiffle trees, rims, wheels, spokes, etc; up until 1917 when the government took the factory over for manufacturing of Walnut gun stocks and airplane propeller blade stock. After the war it became a tomato cannery and in the 1920's it became a coal office on one side of the building and a tavern on the other side.
The Hoyt Bending Works was located at what is now Hunters Lodge. The Hoyt Bending Works at Delaware was built by Joseph Smith, Charles I. Hoyt, and John H. Hoyt about 1890 and acquired by John H. Hoyt about 1898 as sole owner and operator manufacturing hammer handles, whiffle trees, rims, wheels, spokes, etc; up until 1917 when the government took the factory over for manufacturing of Walnut gun stocks and airplane propeller blade stock. After the war it became a tomato cannery and in the 1920's it became a coal office on one side of the building and a tavern on the other side.