In 1837 he developed the steel plow & tested it on Lewis Crandall's farm near Grand Detour, Illinois
Ten 
years after he developed his first plow, John Deere was producing 1,000 plows a
... [DOC] [TLE] Story of the John Deere Plow [PAR] In 1837 our founder, John Deere, was a typical blacksmith turning out hayforks ... 
home in Grand Detour, Illinois, because they had to interrupt their work to clean 
the ...