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From 1878 to 1897, the company relied on prison labor at the Virginia State Penitentiary. [3] After that, it operated for more than 75 years on Twenty-first Street (along Tobacco Row) in Richmond. Larus and Brother Company incorporated in 1900. [1] By 1901, the company's workers were represented by the Tobacco Workers International Union (TWIU ...
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]
The area was vacated by the tobacco companies by the late 1980s. Following completion of Richmond's James River Flood Wall in 1995, led by Richmond developer William H. Abeloff, many of the old warehouses of Tobacco Row were modernized and converted into developments of loft apartments, condominiums, offices, and retail space along part of the restored canal system.
The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter, Goodwin & Company, and Kinney Brothers. The company was one of the original 12 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896.
Model Tobacco was the company's bestselling brand, and was one of many brands produced at the factory. [3] The site consists of ten contributing structures, grouped primarily in three sections: a six-story factory, a power plant, and storage warehouses. [3] The horizontal nature of the factory's construction reflected changes in tobacco ...
Allen & Ginter was a Richmond, Virginia, tobacco manufacturing company formed by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter around 1880. The firm created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States.
In 1929, the company made its first cigarettes in Richmond, Virginia, using an existing factory the company purchased. In 1933, this factory was racially integrated more than 30 years before the law required it. In 1938, the company offered preferred stock to ordinary buyers. [4] Philip Morris advertisement, portrayed by Johnny Roventini
2001–present – U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company; During the 19th century, chewing tobacco was distributed throughout the United States by George Weyman. Weyman was the inventor of Copenhagen Snuff, [8] and after his death, Weyman & Bros was acquired by the American Tobacco Company. [9] It is today known as the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company. [10]