Crescent Street was the principal industrial street in Mazomanie during the 1800s, with a cheese factory, creamery, and factories producing wood and iron products. C.J. Trager operated a carriage and sleigh factory in the 1873 two-story brick and stone building at 38 Crescent Street, while farther east stood Gramm's carpenter shop and a woodworking plant operated by Warren & Moulton. In 1867 George Davies opened a shop making fanning mills, and later he and his brother Nathaniel established a foundry that manufactured metal castings and drill presses of their own design. The Mazomanie Cabinet Manufacturing Company was founded in 1894 by Albert Tinker and Charles Schlough, who produced Tinker's patented kitchen cabinets for sale throughout the area. Starck Manufacturing Company also made wood products, including a billiard-like game built inside a parlor table. A poultry business later operated there until the Mazomanie Egg Company moved to Middleton in 1957, and the area is now used for municipal operations. On Crescent Street, early blacksmiths John Parman and Asa Preston ran neighboring shops. Parman began in 1858, built the surviving brick shop in 1865, made wagons and carriages, performed general blacksmithing, and remained in business until 1877; the building continued in blacksmith use until 1980. John Warren built a small shop beside Parman's in 1863, Asa Preston bought it and operated it until his death in 1892, and while working there John F. Appleby began experiments with binding devices that led to his twine grain binder. After succeeding in Beloit, Appleby employed Asa's son David to help establish patent licensees in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and David and his brother John operated the Preston shop until John's death in 1904. The building then stood idle until 1930, when it was sold for a coal and wood business. Along railroad corridors, freight and coal buildings were placed beside side tracks so cars could unload directly, with floors set level with freight cars and, in some cases, two levels allowing coal to be chuted into lower storage. The taller building in this complex, built between 1915 and 1929, has two levels, and the lower section was restored in 1993.