Question: What business in Pensacola is the oldest in the city, one of the oldest in Florida, and one of the 50 oldest in the U.S.?
Answer: The Pensacola Hardware Company
The Pensacola Hardware Company was founded by Albert Lord Avery in 1851 at the corner of Palafox and Intendencia. A.L. Avery’s son, Albert Miner Avery, joined his father in the business in 1876. A.M. Avery, born in 1852 in Pensacola, grew up attending local Pensacola schools and attended college at the University of the South in Tennessee. During that time, the Pensacola Hardware Company operated as the A.L. & A.M. Avery Hardware Company.
