Donohoo & Ware...
Among Plainview's first businesses was R.C. Ware Hardware, which was opened at the site, then Pacific (Broadway) and Main (Sixth Street), in 1889. A year later, J.N. Donohoo arrived in town, and he quickly entered into a partnership with R.C. Ware to operate the Donohoo-Ware Hardware Store at that location.
According to an article in the Jan. 1, 1926, edition of the Plainview Evening Herald, Donohoo and Ware had to freight their supplies in from Amarillo by teams and often their loaded wagons would be stranded for weeks out on the prairie when bad weather made roads impassable.
Later, Donohoo and Ware constructed a more substantial galvanized building for what became Plainview Mercantile Co. (Doug McDonough)
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