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Originally Posted by Bladewire
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  |
"The brewery, which for a while was known as The Baltimore Strong Beer Brewery, was founded in 1783 by Thomas Peters"
The brewery was too, read the 2nd paragraph, don't just skim. Both the examples I provided (I haven't got the time to post all day - you must tell me how you do it) were founded in the 1790s or earlier.
The manufacturing firm I listed was the first "large scale" company, and I provided it for your edification.