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The Crescent Machine Company was founded in 1894 as a general machine shop by founders Elmer Harrold and Clint Wilderson of Leetonia, Ohio. In 1897, the company designed and built a small band saw for a local cabinet maker and was launched into the business of manufacturing woodworking machinery. In 1945, Crescent was sold to the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Company, which later became the Rockwell Manufacturing Company and the Crescent line was merged into the lines of other Rockwell owned woodworking machinery manufacturers, including Delta and Red Star. Production at the Leetonia plant continued until 1953, when Rockwell decided to close the factory and sell off most of the Crescent brand due to a long unresolved employee strike. At that time, Rockwell sold off the Crescent name and the rights to manufacture all of the machines made by Crescent -except for the 8" jointer, 12/14" tilting-arbor saw, and 20" wood-cutting bandsaw-to the William K. Stamets Co. under the Enterprise Division.
In the days to come, I’ll try to look up the serial number to know what year this saw was made.
There is a fair amount of background on this website. Tha patent date appears to be 1905 or 1909.
