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The fashionable frontier: Thomas Ramsey, windsor-chair maker in Marietta, Ohio.
As the eighteenth century drew to a close, Thomas Ramsey, like thousands more, saw the newly formed Northwest Territory as a prime opportunity to make his fortune. Life in Pittsburgh had been good to the young chairmaker. The new city had a fast-growing furniture industry that had allowed him and his partner, William Davis, to specialize in the production of windsor chairs (see Pl. VII). By about 1800, however, the pull westward was too strong for Ramsey to resist any longer. He made plans to make the weeklong journey by flatboat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Marietta, in Washington County, Ohio.
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