Yes Greg it is from my foundry, Perry will tell you the real story behind The Clarks Foundry of Ohio. Now Perry don't ruin a good story by telling the truth. ::)
The Clarks Foundry of Ohio
PS good find JR
Clarks great grandfather came to Ohio as an orphan in 1834 after he had immigrated to the United States from Belgium where he had been an assistant tool maker and molder.
He worked at different foundries as a young man until 1847 when, along with his older brother, he opened Clark Manufacturing in Springfield, Ohio. In the slow times and when the furnaces were not in operation the facility began to make womens underclothes as a sideline.
Clarks younger sister Victoria ran this part of the business. They didn't want the whole town to know their business so in the family they referred to the sideline as Victoria's Secret and ran that part of the business under that name.
The family eventually sold the name of the womens clothing line to an international company that bears that very name to this day. Descendents of the Clark family still live in and around Ohio and are independtly wealthy living under assumed characters professing to collect cast iron to hide their real identity.
