🔒Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 6: Competing hardware stores

WBJ has partnered with the Worcester Historical Museum to run a year-long trivia contest in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Worcester’s founding on June 14, 1722. Readers should email their answer to the question below by March 31 to bkane@wbjournal.com or fill out the special Google Forms below to compete for a special year-end prize package.

Competing hardware stores

In 1767, Stephen Salisbury opened a hardware store in Worcester’s Lincoln Square. In 1782, Salisbury's cousin, Daniel Waldo, opened a competing hardware store a few blocks away on Main Street. Salisbury’s store closed in 1813, but Waldo’s store remained open for 250 years, changing hands multiple times. After Waldo, it was owned by Henry Miller, who then sold it in 1866 to a man who would rename the store after himself. The store bore that name until it closed in 2017.

Trivia question: What was the name of Daniel Waldo’s original hardware store when it closed in 2017?

And the answer to last edition’s question: The hospital system the 1871 facility Washburn Memorial Free Dispensary is part of today is UMass Memorial Health.