Lady friend Sue Brooks (above) enjoys an excursion thru the Smucker Brand Showcase Store just south of the company's factory in Orville, OH.  To get there take US 30 east from Wooster about 8 miles, turn north in Riceland on State route 57 and the store is about 1/4 mile north on the east side. 

THE SMUCKER JELLY STORE--
Treat yourself to a treat

The Smucker company got its start about the time the Lincoln Highway was headed toward the drawing board.  In 1897 Jerome Smucker opened a cider mill in Orville and soon produced a by-product; apple butter.

By 1900 he and his son were selling apple butter from the back of a horse drawn wagon.  The production and sale of jellies and preserves began in 1923 and by 1942 they did their first shipment to a national customer on the west coast.

Those yummy toppings we like to spoon on our ice cream arrived in 1948.

Today, their spiffy retail outlet which opened in 1999 is chock full of Smucker products as well as samples of other brands they have acquired, like Jif peanut butter, for example. 

See their web site here!

This photo was done of a display of colorful jars on their retail store's rear wall, visible in the top photo under the corporate banner.  The geometric streaks were caused by zooming the lens during a modestly long exposure of 1/10 second, f/22, ISO 400.