![]() There is not much information about which engines were made in which plant, but the Maquoketa plant continued making chainsaw engines after the Clinton plant was closed. The early engines such as the 7 were made in the Michigan plant. Maquoketa is still a town of about 3500, which they were when Clinton employed about 3000 people and turned out about 3800 engines a day in the 1950s. They have some artifacts from the plant, but not a lot. The only thing left of the Maquoketa plant is the office building, which is now the home of the county historical society. They used both plants until the company was sold off after the Owner died in the early 1990s. ![]() (pronounced ma-coke-a-ta) This plant was built during WWII to manufacture steel tubing. My understanding is that they started in Clinton Michigan in 45 or 46, and took over a plant in Maquoketa, Iowa in 1946.
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