Columbus Washboard Company

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Channel your jug band fantasies on a half-hour factory tour and in the small museum. The company has been making washboards – you know, the device your grandma used to scrub her laundry that doubled as a bluegrass instrument – since 1895. It's the only such manufacturer left in the US.

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