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Family Serving Your Family
Dunham’s
has a century-long, family tradition of providing customers with quality
products, outstanding value and courteous service.
The legacy
began in March 1905, when Roy and Fannie Dunham bought a half-interest
in a small grocery store on Wellsboro’s Main Street. Over the next
three decades, they added dry goods, household items, hardware, farm supplies,
clothes and shoes.
In 1913 when
the store was badly damaged in a fire, Roy and Fannie made a commitment
to continue to serve the community. They bought additional space, rebuilt
and expanded.
 During
the Depression, when a lot of rural residents had no way of getting to
town, the Dunham’s created the “Rolling Store,” a modified
truck that carried dry goods, hardware and candy to residents in outlying
areas. The truck traveled around the county until World War II when gasoline
and tire rationing put the brakes on the rolling store.
In 1932,
at the height of the Depression, Roy and Fannie took on the huge task
of
building the present three-story department store. Over the years, ownership
of Dunham’s Department
Store has passed from generation to generation. Today it is owned
and
operated by John and Nancy Dunham and their daughter, Ann.
From 3,000
square feet to over 35,000 square feet, Dunham’s has grown and kept
pace with the times. Walk into Dunham’s today and you’ll find
the hottest styles, the latest fashions and hand-selected quality products
in every department, on every floor.
One thing
hasn’t changed. The courteous service, ‘unhurried’,
warm and welcoming atmosphere and small town friendliness that Roy and
Fannie Dunham started 100 years ago are still what makes Dunham’s
special today.
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