Before this year, politics rarely came up on the production floor at Musgrave Pencil Company, located in a town ... town with access to railroads and red cedars produced the majority of wood ...

Musgrave Pencil Company is the only pencil factory left in Shelbyville, Tennessee, a town once called "Pencil City." While other companies in the area folded to competition, Musgrave held on by ...

James Raford Musgrave founded Musgrave Pencil Company relying on the abundant local supply of Tennessee red cedar, a wood that has proven perfect for pencils. He cut it into slats and started ...