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Belknap:
https://www.thckk.org/belknap-bluegrass-hist.html
Belmont:
https://belmonthardwareonline.com/history.htm
Note: some new information may lead to Belmont cookware having been made for the Belmont Hardward in Belmont, MS.
The Columbus Hollow Ware Co.:
https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rocky/ohio_alhn/institutions/ohpen.htm
The Columbus Hollow Ware Co.: Harker Mfg. Co.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_oh/53532
Comstock & Co.: Quincy, IL (foundry was known as the Phoenix Stove Works)
https://www.castlestove.com/history.htm
Dixie:
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=852
Dixie:
https://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/full_story/14687347/article-Reflecting-on-the-old-days
Favorite:
https://www1.youseemore.com/piqua/contentpages.asp?loc=196
Glascock Stove & Mfg. Co.:
https://www.glascockstoves.com/
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.:
https://www.thckk.org/history/hsb.pdf
Lodge Mfg.Co.:
https://lodgemfg.com/home.asp
Loth's - The W.J. Loth Stove Co.:
https://www.vaart.com/generic.html?pid=51
Orr, Painter:
https://berks.pa-roots.com/library/business/iron.html
Orr, Painter:
https://archive.org/download/centennialcatalo00orrp/centennialcatalo00orrp.pdf
Richmond Stove Co.:
https://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/stovecat.html
Rome Industries:
https://www.pieiron.com/
Shapleigh Hardware Co.:
https://www.thckk.org/history/shapleigh-history.pdf
Sidney:
https://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/archives/people/psmithpeoplea.htm
E.C. Simmons - Simmons Hardware Co.:
https://www.thckk.org/history/simmons-hdwe.pdf
Sperry:
https://www.bataviahistoricalsociety.org/foundry.htm
Stover:
https://www.geni.com/people/Daniel-Stover/225459
Stover:
https://vintagemachinery.org/MfgIndex/detail.aspx?id=1713
Stuart Peterson & Co.:
https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/HGSv1.0079
Wagner:
https://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/industry/cookware.htm
Wagner:
https://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-03/food/fo-5642_1_cast-iron-cookware
Wapak:
https://archive.org/stream/historywesterno00willgoog#page/n630/mode/2up/search/wapakoneta
WIRCO:
https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~berta/mcbk1908/2-1%20.pdf
WIRCO:
https://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/04000746.pdf
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/household-transcript.html Transcript of The History of Household Technology