Today is National Laundry Day, so we thought we'd take a look at a particular bit of Vermont history: Montpelier was once the home to the nation's clothespin industry with companies like United States Clothespin Company and its many competitors.
This picture is of the large model of a wooden U. S. Clothes Pin, constructed by Charles H. Ellicott Jr. in the 1920s. This model clothes pin was displayed on top of the building at the south end of Montpelier’s Main St. bridge across the Winooski River until sometime in the mid 1900s when the building was torn down.