Maumee Plumbing & Heating Supply

So often we get asked "Why is your name Maumee Supply if you are located in Perrysburg?" To get to the answer, we need to go back to 1954 and look at the history of how Maumee Supply began. Harold Stanford (a former tradesman) and Dale Heller (former salesman with Crane Company) began selling iron pipe, cast iron soil pipe, and fittings to other plumbers and contractors out of an empty building on West Third Street in Perrysburg, which was a former blacksmith shop.

In 1956 as the business was gaining traction, with deliveries being made out of an old station wagon, the two partners formed a plan to move the business to Maumee, OH for access more centrally located. The two formed a partnership under the name Maumee Plumbing. Prior to actually executing the plan and moving into the Maumee, OH building, the landlord of the Maumee property drastically increased the rent (the landlord heard the business was becoming successful and raised the rent).

With all the papers filed and business already created in the name Maumee Plumbing, the two partners decided to forego the outlandish lease in Maumee and stay in Perrysburg.