Complex sentence: The village was then home to a plant that manufactured the staves for making barrels, and had a clothespin factory from 1903 to 1929, but lost almost all industry by the 1930s.
Split into simpler sentences: The village was then home to a plant that manufactured the staves for making barrels. It had a clothespin factory from 1903 to 1929 but lost almost all industry by the 1930s.