, about 20 miles from
Thomaston,to make wooden peach crates for peach farmers in the area.
Asthemarketforwoodenfruitboxeswanedin the 1950s,Woodbury
Box would manufacture other products such as corrugated boxes,
rollers and beams for the textile industry and caskets. Meanwhile, the
company also expanded its capacity by contracting assembly work of
industrial mop hardware for the surrounding textile mills. Bill Rudder
was successful in convincing the mills thatWoodbury Box could produce
the parts itself providing better quality and at less expense.
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