Display at Hugh S. Saum Hardware Store, Edinburg

Display at Hugh S. Saum Hardware Store, Edinburg

Hardware stores - Virginia - Edinburg

Edinburg (Va.)

Advertising - Virginia - Edinburg

Nighttime window display at the Hugh S. Saum & Co. Hardware Store in Edinburg, Virginia.

Hugh Saum and Company was founded in 1868 by two brothers, John A. and Hugh, whose father, Abraham, had a store prior to this time.

The site of the first store was on the corner of Comer and Main Streets in Edinburg. The last location was on the Main Street next to the Dominion Bank (First Union) parking lot.

For many years, Hugh Saum & Co. was known as the oldest hardware store east of the Mississippi River that had been in business continuously and owned by the same family.

"They've got it if they can find it" was their company's well-known advertising pitch.

The store was sold to the telephone company after the death of John and Kenneth Saum in the 1980's.

The building was then torn down and replaced by business offices for the telephone company.

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Undated

Identified in 2013 by C.F. Wagonere who remembered it from his childhood.

Historical information about the store came from pages 130 and 131 of the book, "The History of Edinburg, Va." by Mary Ann Williamson and Jean Allen Davis, published in 1994 (third printing dated 2001).

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