
Furniture Industry, Prendergast Library
The Jamestown Furniture Industry, 1920 to 1945. By 1930, 50 of the city''s 110 factories produced furniture and two of them, Art Metal and Marlin Rockwell, were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1945 furniture was still Jamestown''s biggest industry, but the number of furniture companys had declined to 25.