Sherrill Still Has Flatware Work

Liberty Tabletop gives Sherrill a real place to begin. Sherrill Manufacturing, operating as Liberty Tabletop, began in 2005. Former Oneida Limited leaders helped keep flatware production in the area.

Sherrill Manufacturing says Matthew Roberts and Greg Owens formed the company after buying the Oneida Ltd. Factory in Sherrill.

Liberty Tabletop says the business grew after Oneida shifted production overseas. That gives Sherrill a clear identity: forks, spoons, knives, factory skill, local continuity, and a small city still tied to making useful things.

That is a small-city story with a nice amount of grit. The product is everyday, but the work carries a long local memory: metal, machinery, table settings, factory names, and people who knew how to keep production alive.

Sherrill can be easy to pass by on a map of Oneida County. The flatware story makes it stick. It says this is a place where an old industrial identity did not disappear cleanly; part of it stayed, changed names, and kept making things people hold in their hands.

That last part is what makes the story warmer than a factory note. Flatware is ordinary household stuff, so Sherrill’s manufacturing memory reaches all the way to the dinner table.