The oldest business in each U.S. State
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Top 20 the most oldest U.S. companies
- Caswell-Massey – a perfume and soap company in Newport, Rhode Island (1752)
- The Hartford Courant – the Connecticut-based newspaper (1764)
- Baker’s Chocolate – a chocolate company based in Boston (1765)
- Ames – a tool company in Massachusetts (1774)
- King Arthur Flour in Boston (1790)
- Cigna – the first marine insurance company in the U.S. (1792)
- Dixon Ticonderoga – a graphite-pencil company in New Jersey (1795)
- Jim Beam – producer of whiskey in Kentucky region of Virginia (1795)
- JP Morgan Chase – the largest bank in the U.S., New York City (1799)
- Crane and Co. a paper mill in Massachusetts (1799)
- DuPont – a holder of trademarks on everything(1802)
- Colgate – a toothpaste company in New York City (1806)
- Pfaltzgraff – department stores in Pennsylvania (1811)
- Citigroup – Bank in New York City /Now company merged with Travelers group/ (1812)
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Canada was pretty solidly DMY (British style) when I lived there a couple of decades ago. Have they gotten sloppy about it?