"Home of William H. Crosby, Eggertsville Road"

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"The Crosby Company and its facilities are certainly historic: Founded in 1896 by William H. Crosby and William H. Hill, the Crosby Company initially manufactured bicycle frames and parts, and later parts for automobiles. (An advertisement for the country’s first automobile show, in Chicago in 1901, declared, ““Crosby metal stampings are playing an important part in the development of the automobile.”) Over the decades the clientele for its metal-stamping operations continued to diversify in 1947 the company had 450 employees and produced, for example, 500,000 bathroom scales per year. The company continues operations, mostly using the buildings at the toward the William Street end of the complex.