The Tell City Chair Co, was a well known, high quality manufacturer of wooden chairs that existed for 146 years, from 1865, until 2011. In 1962, during the Kennedy administration, more than 400 chairs were ordered from the company by the White House, after an example of their chairs was seen at Saks Fifth Avenue, in New York.
Tell City, named after William Tell, and built by Swiss immigrants from Cincinnati, sits on the banks of the Ohio River on the border of Indiana and Kentucky. It was founded in 1858.