the writing of the declaration. people and hewned also opened the door for us to have a conversation 250 years later for us to expand to whom the declaration of rights applied. in the 18th century, it would not have applied to me and might have apply to you, but it does apply to all of us and that is special and important and why we still talk about george mason. >> this is the shawnee milling

company, one of the businesses that has been in operation here for over 100 years. come with us as we learn about them and why the commitment remains strong. >> this is an interesting history. here,1, south of the town across the river, they built frommill that was there to bebut they wanted prosperous and encouraged bringing this over to the present site that it is at and this was a town where my grandfather olmsted it and they came from michigan and granddad heked in oklahoma city and

and my grandmother purchased a wooden barn that has been in the family since that time and my son is now the fourth generation to be the president of the company. >> we are at roundhouse overalls and we are the largest maker of these overalls because we have brand loyalty with four or five thesetions wearing overalls. people where these overalls and we started in 1903, four years before oklahoma was the state. it was indian territory and we started making overalls for the railroad lines. this was a boom town for the

.ndustry in this photo, you can see these are the railroad employees and there are over 1000 of them working on the railroad repair station. this is a repair station that will have a turntable track said they can move the different cars into different parts of the round house and work on them. you can see where the repair station was and the actual building, in 1903, it was down here and you can see the building. the slogan. fits best and is the longest.

be in theficult to old building and we would load getdenim roles that would to be as much as i have of a ton and they would take them up to take them floor and back down to the first floor to and it became a nightmare to get the production made. expand and hire more employees to make this much more profitable. my grandfathers, bought the company. this is always been locally owned. it has always been people who

have owned this and there is that connection. there is that connection of always staying here in the community. most of the overalls are made keeping the employees the mostmportant and important factor would be the skill of our employees. i would say that the connection overtimehe railroad is and there is less and less. the employment in the railroad industry, there is much fewer people and there is not much of a connection anymore and you still do see people with

overalls with people outside of the bib overall environment considering a stripe overall. the stripeople where overalls because that is their pleasure. there is no connection to the railroads anymore. now, we just see people wearing these as day-to-day as part of the country. grown overility has the years as the production has grown and customer demands grew. this structure holds 530,000 and you will see the concrete elevators. there are three of them. this is the newest.

storage of have wheat and corn. the multi-story part of the facility, that is the location of the flour mill and the cornmeal processing and is the 1906.on where it was in started theather business in 1906 and it was primarily a wooden structure. plante the manufacturing that has been added since that time. are with theies two production facilities and the seven grain elevators. shawnee, it is just over 200. andsee this production for

they going to restaurants and this goestems and through the united states. safety laws come into effect and there is a greater awareness what we public, but have are the 30th of them plus years. we worked on things like clear labeling and things like that. there is the federal mandate with food-safety laws, but these

have been adopted for many decades already. of pridereat sense that the name of the town is shipped all over the country and i interact with this town that i grew up in and people share that sense of pride and it has really been a partnership. sometimes, we need support from the city with expansion or moving the utility line and this allows us to do more and we always have great cooperation with all those services that they provide for us. >> we recently toured shawnee, oklahoma. onrn more about other stops

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