Valley Park Elevator & Hardware

2008 | Best Hardware Store with a Grain Elevator

Where can you get a new key cut, purchase pig chow, catch up on the local gossip and take a romp around a 132-year-old (and still serviceable) grain elevator? Valley Park Elevator & Hardware, that's where. Opened in 1876, it's an institution. Richard "Judge" Grellner bought the store back in 1976. He died this past April, but the Elevator & Hardware is still in the family: Grellner's son, Steven, and grandsons, Chris and Nathan, put in 80 hours a week to keep the place open. And a... More »