Wyandot Popcorn Company

This where I Grew up here. My father was the manager of the company. My mother and her brother worked in the factory. It was a very busy place during harvesting time. Trucks would be down the lane and lined up along the road. The structure behind the factory which looks like a house on stilts, was where corn cobs were sent after the corn was taken off the cob. The the cobs were used for bedding for the hogs on the farm. The original building on the right side of the bigger building was a one room school house that was used for storage and a scale house. The blackboards were still in the school when I was growing up. My cousins and I would tie ropes onto the rafters and swing from one side to the other. In the main part of the factory a basket ball hoop was installed on the first floor for my brother and his friends. While I was in school, I used to play basket ball and roller skate on the first floor. The little building in front of the bins on left was my mother's chicken coup, she raised chickens and sold eggs. If you come straight forward from the coup is where my father had his garden and just to the right of the garden there is an apple tree that produced green apples which I was not supposed to eat because the apples would give you and upset stomach. In front of the tree there is a brick fireplace that my father built. He used to cook hamburgers and hot dogs. On accross the land there is a big hickory tree, where my mother would gather hickory nuts and my father would pick the nuts out in the winter. I had a swing in that tree. It was a wonderful place to grow.