Within a year, during the summer of 1927, Cobbler put down his family trade, trading in pliers for spatulas. Reck’s Shoe Repair became Rogue’s Roost Candy Company, so named for the legend of Roland’s great-great-grandfather, Oscar Von Reckenstuggel—the man supposedly responsible for Hanover’s unique nomenclature in the late 1700s (but that is another tale).
By 1928, Cobbler needed a larger facility to create his confectionary delights, so Rogue’s Roost Candy Company relocated to a small factory on Maple Avenue in Hanover—just a stone’s throw from where Cobbler grew up—where the company resides today, over ninety years later. |