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Macy’s, JPMorgan and eight other companies about the same age as the US on July 4th this year.


Flashback in the late 1700s: The United States recently won the Revolutionary War. The horse-drawn carriages are a common form of transportation, and gas lighting was just invented. Electricity isn’t as in the house as in another century.

Jump to 2025 and overrun with AI and Crypto. Are you surprised to find out that some of the companies that started in the old days are still ranked on this year’s Fortune 500 list?

As the US approaches six months, luck Look back at 10 Fortune 500 companies that are comparable to the population’s age. Prove it with photos.

Rowland H. Macy was a dry goods store Rh Macy & Co. in 1858. has opened. The first Macy’s Store is depicted on Sixth Avenue in New York City around 1880.

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Macy’s oldest subsidiary was John Sirito & Company, a Cincinnati-based department store founded in 1830, and Macy is now 195 years old. Before purchasing Sirito, Macy’s was a dry goods store in New York City, Rh Macy & Co. It was. The first day of the store in 1858, founder Roland H. Macy Rack-up It totaled $11.06, which is worth more than $400 today. Now, almost 200 years after Sirito was founded, Macy’s still attracted the ranks to the Fortune 500 in 193.

9. CSX Co., Ltd.

"Atlantic Ocean" A locomotive pulling two double deck coach Imrei, full of people.
Potential buyers were skeptical of steam engines when they were first used in the mid-1800s. To convince people to buy into a novel concept, the ability of a steam engine was compared to that of a horse. Therefore, the term “horsepower” was born.

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Today, one of the oldest companies still owns and operates the railway, ranks 301 on the Fortune 500. CSX Corporation was launched in 1827 as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, but in 1980 it did not acquire the name CSX until 1980 the railroad companies Chessey System and Chessey System. The seaside Coastline United. The 198-year-old company was the first common airline railway in the United States and was the original line. It’s covered 13 miles of one state – Mariland. The company currently covers 21,000 miles in 23 states.

What was depicted here in 1938, a few years after the New York Gaslight Company became the integrated Edison company of New York, is the nerve center of the integrated Edison system. The company supplies New York’s metropolitan area and has since powered nearly 8 million people.

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Before the integrated Edison merged Edison, it was New York Gaslight, and it began in 1823 illumination Street lights in parts of Lower Manhattan. By the early 1900s, the company had bought both the New York Team Company and the Edison Illumination Company of Thomas Edison, before adding steam and electricity to its repertoire. At the age of 202, the company still offers these three utilities to its customers, ranked 286 on the Fortune 500.

American actor Clint Eastwood is posing in western gear next to an exhibition of Philip Morris tobacco products from around 1965. Another Altoria subsidiary, Philip Morris, opened its doors in 1847, 25 years after George Weyman opened the store.

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In 1822, George Weyman opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The shop became the US tobacco company in 1911 and was purchased by Altria in 2009. Ranked 209th in the Fortune 500, Altria, US Tobacco Company in 203. It has now been renamed the smokeless tobacco company in the US.

Colgate opened the Jersey City starch factory in 1820, 14 years after William Colgate first opened the store. The factory is depicted on the left side of 1925. On the right is a 1909 advertisement for Colgate toothpaste. The ribbon opening was added to Corrugate’s toothpaste tube a year ago. The company’s website states, “We improved the tube because we couldn’t improve the product.”

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It’s a corrugate sale The first jar of toothpaste in 1873 – yes, jar – was founded in 1806 almost 70 years ago. At the time, William Colgate sold starch, soap and candles in his New York City store, and quickly branched out into perfumes, shaving creams and, of course, toothpaste. In his 219th year, Colgate ranked 212 in the Fortune 500.

5. Dupont De Nemours, Inc.

Close-up view of three dynamite sticks produced by DuPont around 1950.

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The 339 for the Fortune 500 is Dupont de Nemours, a chemical company that first started producing gunpowder 223 years ago. Founded by French chemist éleuthèreirée née dupont de nemours, the company Incorporated In 1802, the construction of a gunpowder factory, that is, the Eleuyan factory – soon Vegan. DuPont, then Ei du pont de nemours and Company, recorded its first sale in 1804 two years later.

People pass the JPMorgan & Company Office Building on 23 Wall Street, around 1905. It is New York City’s first office building to be equipped with a newly constructed power plant in New York City. The building was demolished in 1913 and replaced by a short building known as the JP Morgan Building.

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Do you think JPMorgan Chase (226-year-old company ranked 11th in the Fortune 500? Established As a water company? In 1799, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr founded, among other things, the Manhattan company, supplying drinking water to New York City. The tension between Hamilton and Bali heated up when Bali used loopholes in the company’s charter to allow extra capital to be used in banking, establishing a bank for the Manhattan company, which was in direct competition with Hamilton’s New York Bank. The feud between the two co-founders led to the infamous duel that led to Hamilton’s death.

The sculpture on State Street in Boston around 1840 was half a century before the establishment of Union Bank and half a century before the establishment of State Deposit & Trust Company.

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A new bank in 1792 at the corner of State and Exchange Streets in Boston open That door: Union Bank. State Street Corporation appeared in the 1920s after the merger of Union Bank (at that time the National Bank) and State Street Deposit & Trust Company, a competing bank that opened in State Street in 1891. The 233-year-old company has acquired a name from the street that the bank has started. In 2025, the company ranked 198th in the Fortune 500.

Andrew William Mellon, painted here in 1930, took over the bank of T. Mellon & Sons in 1882, 13 years after the establishment of the bank, along with his younger brother Richard. He later followed in the footsteps of Alexander Hamilton and became the longest serving secretary of the US Treasury. 2007, T. Mellon & Sons’ Bank, then Mellon Financial Corporation merged with the Bank of New York to create BNY Mellon.

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Out of the end of the Revolutionary War, the Bank of New York Created In 1784, by a group of people, including Alexander Hamilton, as a means to acquire foreign investment and promote economic growth in a newly independent country. The country is owned in debt, and Hamilton believed emergency loans from banks were the only way to save it from bankruptcy. His plans worked, and the bank, like the country, ranked 113 in the Fortune 500 of the year, about 241 years later, BNY Melon ranked 113 in this year’s Fortune 500. In fact, the Bank of New York was the first public company on the New York Stock Exchange, founded on Wall Street in 1792.

Jeff and William Coors, great grandchildren and grandchildren of founders Adolf Coors, respectively, posed in 1987 at the brewery at their main factory in Golden, Colorado. Adolf opened a Golden Brewery in the same town 114 years ago.

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The Molson Coors Beverage Company, older than the US, started in 1774, when William Worthington began. brewing British beer. His business eventually merged with John Molson’s brewery (established in Montreal in 1786). Frederick J. Miller’s Planckroad Brewery (established in Wisconsin in 1855). The Golden Brewery of Adolf Coors (established in Colorado in 1873). The four breweries, along with many other breweries, merged within the company’s 251-year history. Today’s company ranks 366 on the Fortune 500, but that wasn’t without challenges. During the banned era, Miller and Coors survived with brewed soda. Close beer and malt syrup.

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