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 ...

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Inside one of the nation’s last surviving pencil manufacturers, Jason Glines heaved slats of wood imported from China through a cutting machine. He watched as blades ...

A machine punches erasers into aluminum ferrules at the ends of pencils at the Musgrave factory. Natosha Via But near the end of the assembly line, in a nook where pencils are imprinted with their ...

The Musgrave Pencil Company has been making pencils in Shelbyville, Tennessee since 1916, helping the town earn its designation, with a number of other manufacturers, as Pencil City.

A production line at the Musgrave Pencil Co. in Tennessee, shown in 2016. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News) Scott Johnson, president of the Musgrave Pencil Co. in Shelbyville, Tenn., was ready to ...

Ah, what most of us don't know about the pencil! Like, how do they get the lead ... uhm, graphite into it? At the Musgrave Pencil Factory in Shelbyville, Tenn. - once known as Pencil City ...

Before this year, politics rarely came up on the production floor at Musgrave Pencil Company, located in a town once known as “Pencil City.” President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have ...