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Included in the 16-acre (6.5 ha) site are four large warehouses, processing buildings including a stemmery and a re-drying plant, and ancillary buildings and structures, including the American Tobacco Company's 1939 research laboratory. The complex exhibits a historical range of trends in the processing and storage of tobacco. [2]
When completed for $2.7 million ($36.3 million in 2016 dollars) [6] as the headquarters of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, it was the tallest building between Baltimore, Maryland, Birmingham, Alabama, and the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, and it won a national architecture award. [4]
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) is an American tobacco manufacturing company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded by namesake R. J. Reynolds in 1875, [1] it is the largest tobacco company in the United States. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds American, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of British American ...
An ambitious expansion at American Tobacco Campus, including the first major grocery store downtown, could get off the ground in 2024. 20 years ago, American Tobacco helped remake downtown Durham ...
The buildings date from about 1890 to 1959, and include buildings relating to the tobacco industry, specifically R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Also on the district are a once-thriving African American and the wholesale commercial business district that once catered to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company workers.
Orthene is an insecticide produced by the Ortho Co. Bob Musgrave, left, and Bub Hull, right, tour rows containing more than 200,000 pounds of tobacco at the New Deal Tobacco Warehouse in Weston ...
After a little more than a year in business, one of the newest restaurants on Durham’s American Tobacco Campus has closed. The popular Raleigh restaurant Five Star made the leap to Durham last ...
Duke, Sons & Co. prospered and through a series of purchases and mergers sometimes called the "cigarette war," by 1890 had gained control of most of the American tobacco industry, naming their trust the American Tobacco Company. [5] In 1899 American Tobacco bought a million dollars worth of tobacco in Edgerton and two weeks later, announced ...