A long-time Lebanon County business is opening its Doors for Tours, starting this weekend. Smoke has billowed from wooden smokehouses at Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats for more than 120 years. Butcher Harvey Seltzer started the company in 1902 in Lebanon County, where it remains to this day. Much of the operation is still done the old-fashioned way, with hand-tended wood fires and workers tossing bologna high into the smokehouse for hanging.Smoke master Ben Boger says it’s an art and science.
He tells News 8 what visitors can expect on the tour.“How unique and how traditional we stayed as a company. These aren't the same smokehouses, but they are in the same location and same way we did it in 1902,” Smith said.CEO Austin Wagoner is the fourth generation of the family involved in the business. He is proud to show off the past and the present.“This right here is a desk my great-grandfather Harvey used in school.