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1850
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1853Hans Goos begins dredging Mississippi River sand and gravel in Davenport, IA.
1860
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1860Hans Goos is a key material supplier for the construction of the Rock Island Arsenal.
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1869John Henry Hahn purchases property off Stewart Road in Muscatine
1880
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1884Hahn Bro's Commission Merchants begins as an agricultural sales company in Muscatine, founded by John Henry Hahn, George Hahn, and Henry Hahn.
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1888W.G. Block is founded in Davenport, IA as a coal and Ice supplier.
1890
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1890Hahn Bros enters the lumber business, and then exits by 1895.
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1891Hans Goos and his son incorporate their company, Builders Sand & Gravel
1900
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1903Builders Lime & Cement Co formed, backed by P.T. Walsh Construction, McCarthy Stone Co. and Hans Goos Jr.
1910
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1917Hahn Bro's, Inc. is the largest supplier of cabbage to the U.S. military in WWI.
1920
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1920Hahn-Muscatine Corporation formed in partnership with three individuals from Chicago. After failing to provide the promised capital, the Chicagoans were sued by the family in 1921, and the company fell into receivership.
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1923Henry Hahn and family start dredging sand from the family farm under the name Hahn Bro's Sand & Gravel. At some point, Robert Hahn invents the world's first roller-bearing mounted centrifugal sand pump, and refuses to patent it.
1930
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1932Builders Sand & Gravel, Builders Lime & Cement acquired by Miss Ethel Delarue.
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1935W.A. Grunder's founded as a contracting firm in Wilton, IA
1940
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1941W.G. Block in Ready Mix Industry
1950
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1952Edwards Ready Mix founded in Geneseo, IL.
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1955Walter Hahn, Robert Hahn and his son Tom set up Hahn's first ready mix concrete batch plant in Muscatine.
1960
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1960Mercer County Ready Mix Incorporated with locations in New Windsor and Aledo
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1961Grunder & Sons Ready Mix purchase West Liberty Plant from Pantel's Ready Mix
1980
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1980After Miss Delarue's passing, Builders is sold to Alter Corp. who combine the companies into Builders Sand & Cement
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1981Hahn Bros Sand & Gravel reincorporates as Hahn Ready Mix
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1985Tom Hahn sets up Hahn's first automated batch plant in Muscatine.
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1987Hahn Ready Mix acquires Grunder & Sons Ready Mix with locations in West Liberty, Wilton, Durant and Walcott.
1990
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1991Hahn acquires Mercer County Ready Mix in Aledo, IL.
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1991Alter Corp sell Builders Sand & Cement to Ira Weindruch.
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1995Hahn sets up their first portable batch plant to service the construction of the IPSCO Steel Plant in Blue Grass, IA. The project consisted of over 90,000 cubic yards of concrete.
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1997W.G. Block completes Davenport River Plant.
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1997Builders Sand and Cement acquired by Brian Hahn.
2000
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2006Builders Sand & Cement relocates to West Davenport, opens West Davenport Plant
2010
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2012W.G. Block Co. and Edwards Ready Mix acquired by Brian Hahn.
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2016Block Ready Mix Group And Builders Sand & Cement merged into Hahn Ready Mix.
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2017Hahn Ready Mix is selected to supply the concrete for the new I-74 Bridge in the Quad Cities. Hahn supplied over 215,000 cubic yards to the project over four and a half years.
2020
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2023The I-74 Bridge project and Hahn team wins the International ACI Excellence in Concrete Award for top Infrastructure Project.