A Window on the Past – Charles Forster and the Forster Manufacturing Company

Forster Manufacturing Company, Inc. operated a clothespin assembly plant in South Portland from 1947 to 1956. Let’s take a look at this old Maine company and its founder who appears to have had a habit of spreading misinformation in an attempt to protect his trade secrets. Charles Forster is credited with creating the manufactured toothpick […]

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