Bollman Small Bath Collection
When George Bollman rented an old whiskey distillery on Main Street in Adamstown on July 1, 1868 to make hats, he was already a competent hat maker. In those early day in his shop, he worked with tools not powered by electricity. The labor-intensive hat-making process made for long work days, and resulted in small batches of finished products.
Bollman always maintained attention to detail, and was determined to perfect his product. Though providing for families was his highest goal, his legacy is a company that has survived 150 years, longer than any other American hat making company.
Three years and modest success led Bollman to purchase land across the street for a larger factory. On that land stood a barn built in 1809, the year of Abraham Lincoln