Abstract:
The Globe Hardware Store located on West Fifth Street has always been a downtown landmark. Started by J.H. Hart and G.W. Baker in 1896, the store later was owned in part by George Wood Bacon Hadley, Ernest L. Baker and Grover C. Davis, James L. Harris Jr., Van C. Fleming Jr., E.H. Taft Jr., M.K. Blount, and F.L. Blount. The Herbert Wilkerson family has operated it since 1954.