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| | California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Huntington, Hopkins & Company Hardware Store |
 | | One of the most charming spots in Old Sacramento is the Huntington, Hopkins & Company Hardware exhibit and retail store, located at street level in the Big Four Building, adjacent to the California State Railroad Museum’s 100,000-square foot Railroad History Museum. |
 | | Developed as an exhibit in 1981, the Hardware Store re-creates a small town hardware business of the 19th century—although most likely not true to the original: By the 1860s, Huntington, Hopkins & Company Hardware was a sprawling, wholesale brokerage supplying Northern California with all kinds of goods from the East. |
 | | The store’s east-side is a working retail operation, where visitors can purchase such items as blue speckle-ware, cast iron cookware, old-fashioned wooden toys and games, oil lamps of every description, and an eclectic selection of unique books about 19th century tools, Gold Rush history and cooking, and more. |
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