This is the historic page for what became the largest pie baking concern on the planet founded right Cheers and stay safe!
Because of Covid-19 and the REAL Pandemic we are only providing pies to the homeless, the elderly, and the needy. If you really what a pie at this time hunt me down and be willing to donate to a charity and we will provide you pie(s) as a thank you for your support of the work we have been doing in the World as a family since 1888.
12/24/2023
In today’s mail! When Pie History Keeps finding you! A complete stranger reached out to me and said that his grandfather had driven a pie truck for our family in the 1930s or 1940s and that he had a receipt book from his great grandfather, and would be more than happy to give it to us. I thanked him, but said shouldn’t he hang onto that as an heirloom and he said it belong at a place where it would be preserve and hopefully it will! He also asked how to get a hold of a Pie and I said if he made a donation to his favorite charity, I would send him a pie and as a bonus I sent him an over 100 year+ old Connecticut pie company pie tin… which is very rare! The history of pie continues to grow! Thank you!
12/22/2023
HoHoHo!
12/21/2023
12/18/2023
This day in 1902!
11/30/2023
Why would the students from Yale go all the way to Bridgeport to eat pie and then toss the tins on campus when the largest pie baking concern was just off campus? They wouldn’t. The founding of how Frisbee is at best a myth and at worst a lie!
11/28/2023
The number & the phone which was installed by our neighbor Alexander G. Bell (he lived 3 blocks away). When your house is a musuem Part 274!
11/28/2023
Bought new by our family in 1914 and now on display in the Model T Ford Museum (on loan) she has been in continued service and was in the parade for the returning men and women from the U.S. Capitol to the White House after the Great War. One hundred years later I drove her on the same roads as the country paid respect for those lost in World War One. This was one of hundreds of trucks we had as ours was the largest pie baking concern on the planet and the second largest bakery of any kind in the United States!
11/23/2023
On the eve of thanksgiving 1885 Henry and Johanna Copperthite came to Georgetown and started baking pies and the rest is history! Passing out pies this week for those in need!
11/23/2023
Happy Thanksgiving!
11/22/2023
“There but for the grace of God go I”
It’s only pie!
Our honor, our pleasure!
Happy Thanksgiving!
11/22/2023
The Company Trade Mark...stamped on every pie so you would know you were getting the best! The Largest Pie Baking Concern on the Planet and second largest bakery of any kind in the United States. When Pie Mattered!
11/21/2023
The pie remains the same...Great. The boxes may have changed, the shipping may have changed but the pie ... the same since 1885! Ask For, Insist Upon, and Accept No Other!
11/14/2023
TBack when it was called the War, State & Indian Department we were delivering pies to the OEOB!
11/11/2023
The Power of Pie! A vintage pie tin over 100 years old to a cousin plus a pie. Thank you for your donation to a charity you care about!
11/10/2023
Lest We forget!
11/09/2023
Pie for your Birthday always brings out a smile!
10/19/2023
Our ad 1913!
09/16/2023
When I bake pie!
09/12/2023
Special Event Tonigh!
09/08/2023
This year we are proud sponsors! The first time the band will preform since the passing of Jimmy Buffett! Our honor, our pleasure!
08/19/2023
06/25/2023
Some of the winners from yesterday...
06/23/2023
When you've been baking pie all morning what do you do when you finish? Eat said pie! Blackberry is my favorite. I tell folks if you can find one better I will eat the box. I have never eaten a box! The Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Baking Co., of Georgetown. Delivering the finest pies the world has known since 1885!
06/21/2023
Dear Generous Volunteers and Donors,
The photo says it all! Thanks to wonderful donors and volunteers, guests enjoyed the Ice Cream Social you sponsored and hosted this past Sunday.
We had lots of conversation, ice cream, and toppings. Fantastic parishioners brought delicious lemon sheet cakes and Bundt cakes. Www.CoCoPieCo.com
Of Georgetown donated a wonderful assortment of pies. All were so tasty! The feast continued at the Monday morning program with leftovers from Sunday.
Because of your generosity, each guest left with an abundant take home supper and much needed backpack!
Thank you Msgr. Jameson, Fr. Benson, and Fr. Hurley for joining us! As many of you know we had annual/bi-annual dinners for the homeless from 2007 – 2019. The Social was our attempt to test interest in restarting them. Msgr. Jameson inspired the dinners over 15 years ago, when he acclaimed that St. Matthews offers “hospitality for all”!
We passed out this card at the event and share it now to remind you what a vital role you played in offering hospitality to the marginalized.
Wishing you a delightful Summer,
Paulin Leonida and Nancy Lutz
Social Justice Committee
06/20/2023
The Connecticut~Copperthite Pie Baking Company of Georgetown is proud to provide a pie to each winner of the inaugural Summit Point Cycling Classic! There will also be pies for the volunteers and workers! We have been sponsoring bike and sporting events ever since we opened our doors right here in Washington, D.C. in 1885. Cheers!
06/18/2023
Pies for the homeless father's today! Our Honor, Our Pleasure!
06/16/2023
St. Matthew's Ice Cream Social for Homeless
Cathedral of the St. Matthew the Apostle
1725 Rhode Island, Ave., Washington, D.C. 20036
Sunday, June 18 (Father's Day) at 3:30 p.m.
The Social Justice Committee will host, “an afternoon of ice cream and conversation for our homeless friends!”
And what our family has been doing since the year of the incorporation of the Connecticut – Copperthite Pie Baking Company and not long after the founding of the Central Union Mission in the 1880’s, feeding those in need, serving the community, pie donations, and so much more!
Our Honor, Our Pleasure!
05/26/2023
Headed here to serve pie and visit our 1914 Model T Ford Pie Truck which is on exhibit for a year!
05/25/2023
Ask for, Insist Upon, and Accept No Other!"
When you bake pies and donate them to the homeless, the elderly, and those in need... you may use a lot of flour! Our Honor, Our Pleasure! Baking the finest pies the world has known since 1885!
So if you are planning your vacation travels and want to catch some local history from the family that built the largest pie baking concern on the planet at the turn of the last century! Our bought new by our family new in 1914 Model T Pie Truck is on loan and exhibit at the Model T Ford Museum in Richmond, IN. There are several historic and interesting cars on display there and they would love to have you! Post pics if you go! https://www.mtfca.com/museum/ Cheers!
04/19/2023
And every year we would take all the Post's and other news carriers to Glen Echo for a day of fun and PIE!
04/18/2023
Folks hope you can make it! This weekend the 90th Georgetown House Tour on Saturday, April 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. http://www.georgetownhousetour.com
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Baking the finest Pies the World has known Since 1885
In 1870, while on his honeymoon Henry and his wife Johanna Louise O’Neil visited West Washington, now Georgetown, and determined that it would be a great place to start a business.
In 1885, they returned on the eve of Thanksgiving with a wagon, horse, and $3.50 to their names. They started baking pies and selling them from the back of the wagon and returned a one day profit of about $100 in today’s money. On January 1, 1886, the H. Copperthite Pie Baking Company began with a new partner and investor and soon to be brother in-law (Annie Copperthite Smith), T.S. Smith, at 1407 32nd Street N.W. and the newlyweds never looked back. By 1897 Henry and Johanna were millionaires in a time when the average family was making $600 per year.
Twenty-five years after launching the Connecticut ~ Copperthite Pie Companies in Georgetown, Henry was producing over 50,000 pies a day in Washington, with factories on Capitol Hill, on M Street, and on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown. By 1918 in the City of Washington and across the nation we had 230 wagons, 600 horses and 15,000 employees turning out over 50,000 pies a day. In D.C. we were the largest non-government employer serving over 125,000 slices a day and 11 million pies a year that were consumed by the citizenry of the Nation’s Capital.
Henry was joined in this endeavor by his family, who came to Washington, and by many of his Civil War friends. By the time of the 1900 Census there was 44 Copperthite’s living in Georgetown.
Soon he purchased the bakery in New Haven, Connecticut where he first started as a wagon driver for H.H. Olds. Soon we had factories there, Hartford, Bridgeport, and in Baltimore, Washington DC on Wisconsin Avenue, M Street, K Street NE and Pennsylvania Avenue not far from the Capitol, in Richmond, Petersburg, Newport News, Virginia, Memphis Tennessee and Omaha Nebraska. And we believe he was a partner and gave the name to Connecticut Pies which became Case Martin Pies of Chicago fame.
In a day and age when shopping for groceries and the delivery of fresh baked goods was in its infancy, Henry Copperthite was a pioneer. He provided pies to the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Government becoming one of the largest manufacturers and purveyors of desserts in the United States. Our family provided pies and hard tack dough for the Doughboys training and fighting in the Great War (WWI). On average, every man, woman, and child in the District of Columbia ate two of his pies every seven days.
In an era when most advertising was the printing and the presentation of a business card, Henry and his partner initiated a unique print ad campaign directed at the housewife, with tips on how to save work and time while extolling the virtues of eating pie with patriotic and whimsical slogans and caricatures of “the Pie Man from Connecticut”. He placed ads in all five daily papers in Washington virtually every day for some thirty years. Television, Radio, Tweeting, Facebook, and Email had yet to be invented, yet “The Man from Connecticut” and/or his products were known to more people in America for a longer time than just about anybody. Just a casual search on-line of the Library of Congress will pull up hundreds of articles about H. Copperthite from the Georgetown News: society events, news accounts of his travels, charitable activities, satire on how fat Washington was getting from pie as the “leading Pie town” etc...
...check back soon as there is so so much more about this proud family of immigrants and indentured servants who came to this country almost penniless, served, and serve the nation became prosperous and blended in to the fabric of the United States of America
