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Frank McDonough opened a small manufacturing plant with the intention of building custom made sawmill equipment that was better than anything being built at that time. The mill was built on the banks of the Eau Claire River in a city now nicknamed "Sawdust City" because sawmilling was the main industry in the 1800's when thirteen sawmills were operating in Eau Claire. By the early 1930's the virgin white pine was gone and so were the mills along the banks of the Eau Claire River. But Frank's machinery manufacturing company survived and prospered.
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