"McGuire" Mowers at Work

ID: 2282 ~ Creator: Dille & McGuire Lawn Mowers ~ Date: 1893
This file appears in: F & N Lawn Mower
"McGuire" Mowers at Work

A demonstration of Dille & McGuire Lawn Mowers at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. This clever advertising stunt by one of several Richmond lawn mower manufacturers helped make the city the "lawn mower capital of the world."

This file appears in: F & N Lawn Mower

By Morrisson-Reeves Library
After farm equipment and pianos, one of the other industries that has defined Richmond is the production of the lawn mower. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Richmond was unofficially known as the “Lawn Mower Capital of the World,” because…