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Most products are made with the original equipment, and the company is still led by the seventh generation Gurney. |  |
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| Founded by David Gurney in 1825, the same year that John Quincy Adams was elected president, DB Gurney Company remains unchanged. The same product is manufactured; most of it using the original equipment, and the company is still led by the seventh generation Gurney. When first founded, the factory sat on Massachusetts’ South Shore in Abington and featured both horse- and water-powered equipment, with 5,000 tacks being handmade per day. Forty years later, the company moved to (what is now) Whitman, where it found its permanent home using the latest technology to power the factory – a steam engine. DB Gurney’s factory is actually older than the town of Whitman itself; until 1875, Whitman was recognized as South Abington. Initially chosen because of its proximity to the Gurney family houses, the factory allowed the men to easily head home for lunch and is nearly identical to its original state. It is an integral piece of a New England town’s historic center where the steam engine continues to reside even though it has been replaced with electricity. |
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