For more than 60 years, Dr. Grabow Pipes and a wide range of other pipe brands have been crafted in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Since 1943 the town of Sparta, NC has been home to what is today the largest quality pipe manufacturing operation in the world. Fifty dedicated employees, many with more than 40 years in pipe-making, bring a total of some 1200 years of skill to creating the best value for quality pipes available in the USA today. Each of the 200,000 pipes they make annually from quality Mediterranean natural briar passes through their hands and 52 production phases before being distributed to pipe retailers across America.