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Old 07-11-2018, 05:11 PM  
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Originally Posted by ilnjscb View Post
They did, they began in the 1780s and 1790s. Some people quote the first important one as Boston Manufacturing Company, founded in 1813 but there were numerous companies founded in the US with shares and corporate structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverl...on_Manufactory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%27s_Brewery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston...turing_Company
Your links are all companies founded in the 1800's, not 1780s and 1790s, but for the first link founded in 1789 in Massachusetts and is the first example of corporate charity feeding off the government, as it failed they gave tax breaks to the companies and the state loaned them money and they eventually went out of business. Good find though! Well done, you found one
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