Discover how 19th-century graphite mines near Ticonderoga and Lake George fueled the Dixon pencil empire, creating company ...

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The famous yellow Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, which we have all used many times at school and at home, was invented by a Marbleheader. Joseph Dixon was born in Marblehead in 1799. He was the son of a ...

Roald Dahl, best-selling author of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” sharpened six of them each day before he started writing. ESPN football analyst Lee Corso often holds one on TV. The iconic ...

TICONDEROGA — A giant sculpture of six Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 yellow pencils that were once sourced in Ticonderoga was unveiled before an applauding crowd Thursday at the Ticonderoga Heritage Museum ...

— -- Perhaps the toughest thing about entering kindergarten is learning how to hold that darned pencil. On Thursday, Dixon Ticonderoga, the nation's biggest pencil maker, will unveil a pencil ...

Dixon Ticonderoga, the more than 100-year-old pencil and arts products company based at Heathrow in Lake Mary, will close its Versailles, Mo., manufacturing plant by the end of the year. Dixon was ...

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