Cider House

     In 1932 Maurice Henry Zeigler was employed at the Ford Plant collecting a paycheck to provide for his wife and 6 children.  To supplement his income he recalled an old family cider press and decided to replicate it in the garage of his row home on Chestnut Street in Lansdale.  Soon he was making and delivering cider on Saturdays, selling it door to door, eliciting the assistance of his children.  Their route included Lansdale and as far away as Norristown.

     By the early 1940s the cider business was so good that he quit his day job and went full time into the cider business.  In addition to his "regular" customers M. H. expanded into wholesale, selling to supermarkets and roadside stands in Philadelphia and New Jersey.

     By the time the third generation of Zeiglers came into the business the distribution routes had increased substantially.  Not only was Zeigler's cider being sold in the Baltimore/Washington area but all the way south to Florida and west to Texas, north into New England and out to the Midwest. 

 

     Now from their 60,000 sq. ft. facility on Broad Street in Lansdale Zeigler's pasteurized cider is available in 32 states as is their lemonade and flavored teas.