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Oldest U.S. Hardware Stores

  • 1. Foster Farrar Company: 1796
  • 2. S.L. Wadsworth & Son: 1818
  • 3. Spalding Ace Hardware: 1822
  • 4. Farmers Hardware: 1836
  • 5. Booker Hardware: 1837
  • 6. Hartke Hardware: 1839
  • 7. Clarks Ace Hardware: 1845
  • 8. Morris Hardware: 1845
  • 9. Carpenter’s Paint & Hardware: 1848
  • 10. Trilling True Value: 1850

Oldest U.S. LBM Stores

  • 1. Cowls Building Supply: 1741
  • 2. Bethel Mills: 1781
  • 3. Tinsman Brothers: 1785
  • 4. Wilkins Lumber: 1808
  • 5. Smoot Lumber:1822
  • 6. Northville Lumber: 1827
  • 7. E.R. Hinman & Sons: 1830
  • 8. Swift Supply: 1839
  • 9. F.D. Sterritt Lumber: 1841
  • 10. S.W. Collins Company: 1844

Oldest U.S. Manufacturers

  • 1. Ames Companies: 1774
  • 2. Pratt-Read: 1798
  • 3. Valspar: 1806
  • 4. Bromwell Housewares: 1819
  • 5. Collins Axe: 1826
  • 6. Simonds International: 1832
  • 7. Cooper Industries: 1833
  • 8. Campbell Hausfeld: 1836
  • 9. Disston Company: 1840
  • 9. Yale: 1840

Oldest U.S. Wholesalers

  • 1. Emery-Waterhouse (div. of Ace Wholesale Holdings): 1842
  • 2. Orgill Inc.: 1847
  • 3. Bostwick-Braun Company: 1855
  • 4. Blish-Mize Company : 1871
  • 5. Florida Hardware Company: 1875
  • 6. Jensen Distribution (div. of Ace Wholesale Holdings): 1883
  • 7. Huttig Building Products: 1885
  • 8. Monroe Hardware: 1886
  • 9. House-Hasson Hardware: 1906
  • 10. Horizon Distribution: 1912 (Began Yakima Hardware Store: 1881)
  • 11. Southern Hardware Company (div. of Bostwick-Braun): 1914