Our History

Browse thru our Timeline and Multimedia resources below to learn more about the history of Littlestown Foundry, “Doing it Right” for 100 years!

Luther D. and Emory H. Snyder started the Littlestown Hardware and Foundry Company, Inc. as a gray iron foundry with sixteen employees— producing, machining, painting, & plating iron castings. For World War I, castings for bearings and shafts for the war effort were made. Later, hardware items, such as bench vises, flanges, hammers, bookends, fire place tools and doorstops complemented the wide variety of commercial castings produced. Today, with 70 employees, over 95% of our business is producing commercial aluminum castings.

First Aluminum Casting Production

Most of the production was for the war effort:

• 1,200,000 Hand Grenades
• 3,000,000 Rifle Grenades
• 3,000,000 Bomb Plugs
• Thousands of Anti-Personnel Mines

Major Aluminum Casting Production Expansion

Addition of Littco Awning Hardware & Aluminum Hardware lines

Through the present: Continuous Modernization of Aluminum Casting Facilities

Iron Casting Production Ends

Leonard Potter was awarded the Aluminum Division’s Frishmuth Award, being honored as the Aluminum Foundryman of the year

Company name shortened to Littlestown Foundry, Inc.

Larry Smeltzer was awarded the Aluminum Division’s Frishmuth Award, being honored as the Aluminum Foundryman of the year, later retiring in 2011

Celebrated 100th anniversary, proudly “Doing it right” since 1916

Ranked #4 in Quality Magazine

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