Hopp Carriage Company, Corner of 4th & Walnut Streets, Mifflinburg
This photo of Hopp Carriage Company was taken about 1910. Owner Alfred A. Hopp, with bowtie, stands in the doorway.
The son of a shopkeeper, Alfred Hopp moved to Mifflinburg and opened his own shop on Market Street. He married Olivia Sarah Gutelius and in 1897 joined Robert Gutelius and Harry Blair in starting the Mifflinburg Buggy Company.
Harry Blair, Alfred Hopp and Robert Gutelius
Hopp left his partners, starting his own company in 1903. Using money from James Ritter. the town's most well known buggy salesman, Hopp built the Hopp Carriage Company at the corner of 4th and Walnut streets.
His former partners sued him for "blocking their air and sun", and Hopp had to move his new factory 18 inches west.
"A Grandiose lithograph of the Hopp Carriage Company was used for advertising, the smoking stack suggesting great activity. But the auto on the street portended the ruination of their buggy making"
1914
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Wood Shop of the Hopp Carriage Company about 1916, with Clarence [Shorty] Musser on right.
Alfred Allen Hopp was born September 8th 1855, the son of Henry & Anna Mary [Rowe] Hopp of Montour County. He died March 14th 1922.
His son Howard ran the business for a year or two after Alfreds death, but it closed soon thereafter.
After the fire - 1927
On June 21, "the most disastrous fire in Mifflinburg for years" destroyed the large building "formerly used by the Hopp Carriage Company." All but a brick section at one end was "in ashes". Several other buildings were destroyed.
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