It Happened in Crawford County: Bucyrus Copper Kettle's Rex Bitner
Rex Bitner has worked in the copper kettle business for over three decades. Now his wife Jennie helps to manage and share its history in Bucyrus.
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It Happened in Crawford: Getting down to businesses at Copper Kettle
James Patrick is welder, blacksmith, a coppersmith and now owner of Cooper Kettle.
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At Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works, the only thing new is the owner
"I really fell in love with this place as soon as I stepped in here," he said. Now, he's the owner of the 142-year-old business. The interior of the two-story wooden-frame building at 119 S. Walnut St. looks like a time capsule or a museum, not a workplace. It's heated with wood-burning and gas stoves; the knob-and-tube wiring was installed in 1912. Graffiti on one wall is dated 1909. Many of the tools used to make the copper kettles look as though they've been there forever — though some have only been there since the 1930s, purchased when the Star Kettle Company in Canton went out of bus...
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