Harlan and Hollingsworth

Harlan & Hollingsworth
Company typePrivate
PredecessorNone
Founded1837 (as Betts, Pusey and Harlan)
FounderMahlon Betts, Samuel Pusey, Samuel Harlan
Defunct1904
SuccessorBethlehem Steel
Headquarters,
ProductsIron ships and ship-related machinery, wooden railroad cars, sugar refining equipment
Revenue$580,000 (1860)

Harlan & Hollingsworth was a Wilmington, Delaware, manufacturing firm that built railroad cars and became one of the first iron shipyards in the United States. It operated under various names from 1837 to 1904, when it was purchased by Bethlehem Steel.