NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...

Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum, special to The Citizen Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...

We don’t know how old our washing machine is. Maytag model A308, serial # 888032AL, when entered into several appliance-age websites (yes, these exist) generates a result that claims that the machine ...

Thumbtacked to a cork bulletin board on the second floor of the Maytag washing machine plant here, rows of charts and graphs hang like Tarot cards waiting to reveal the future. Chuck Parke, the ...

Question: This old Maytag electric wringer washing machine was my mother's. It is still in good working order. What can you tell me about it? Answer: Frederick Maytag founded his washing machine ...

It’s ironic that the closing of the factory occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag’s first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed first wooden-tub washing ...