Fort Miller is not foreign owned. Fort Miller is not contractor owned. Fort Miller is firmly rooted in America, having evolved from a company founded in 1939 by Jefferson Davis, a great-grandson of the President of the Confederate States of America. Our operations began in a small wood-frame building in Fort Miller, NY on the Hudson River, 12 miles east of Saratoga Springs. To this day, the business remains a family-owned, privately-held company under essentially the same ownership that purchased Mr. Davis’ interests in 1948.

Earnings generated by Fort Miller do not flow to England, Ireland or Australia. They remain in the northeastern US to help fund future infrastructure projects. Equally, if not more important, the earnings we generate are not invested in subsidiary or related companies that compete against you on bid day. To Fort Miller, the contractor is our customer every day, not our competitor one day and our customer the next. Our loyalty is, as always, to you.

Throughout the past 55-plus years, Fort Miller has expanded its offerings to become one of the most diversified precast concrete producers in the country. From burial vaults in the 1940s to the addition of precast steps and residential septic systems in the 1950s, Fort Miller was building its foundation for today’s market positioning. Listening to the customer and responding to market trends became early attributes of our company.

In the 1960s, municipal septic systems began to replace individual septic systems and Fort Miller adjusted accordingly, while adding precast manholes, catch basins and other environmentally friendly products to address market needs. These products remain in our product mix today, as do the products introduced a decade earlier.

In the 1970s, highway building became important to Fort Miller as the marketplace requested alternatives to cast-in-place construction. Fort Miller began to produce highway median barrier, box culvert and retaining wall products.

In the 1980s, Fort Miller successfully enhanced its product lines again.  A complete line of highway barrier products, more retaining wall systems and bridge products were added and Fort Miller began to produce custom structures to offer contractors a complete precast package for infrastructure projects.

With all of the products produced in the decades before the 1990s still in our mix, Fort Miller made a major commitment to the bridge market. We added a full range of bridge offerings to supplement our standard and custom box culverts. These additions included three-sided bridges, concrete-steel composite bridge systems, lightweight bridge deck replacement systems and many more. We also added more retaining wall systems, fuel storage tank systems and prison cells. Our focus was to provide the market with a family of products within major product groupings. This marketing strategy allows the owner, designer, engineer and contractor a full range of products to address rapid, "overnight," "over-the-weekend," "Invisible Construction" infrastructure needs.

On-going product development led to the production on the first segmental bridge ever used in New York State and Spaan Span, a low profile bridge system. Our vision is to keep moving forward as we listen and innovate.

As we state often, "your imagination is our only limitation." By listening to the marketplace over the last 55-plus years and today, Fort Miller has distinguished itself as a premier producer in the Northeast, consistent with our goal to be recognized as the best in the business.