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The H. T. Hackney Company is an American wholesale grocery distribution firm headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.Founded in 1891, the company has grown over the years to become one of the largest grocery wholesalers in the nation, with operations covering much of the Eastern United States. [3]
The Fidelity-Bankers Trust Company occupied the building from 1929 until 1964. [1] The Fidelity Building is currently the headquarters of the wholesale grocery company, H. T. Hackney. [2] In May 2011, the company announced plans to open a grocery store on the building's ground floor. [2]
Sansom offered his company as a buyer. H.T. Hackney was founded in 1891 and is one of the largest grocery wholesalers in the U.S., stretching from Michigan to Miami with 4,000 employees across 25 ...
The company held Cabana Foods for only two years before selling it back to Jenkins, who changed the company name to Jenkins Foods and launched the 'Uncle Ray's' brand. [2] In April 2006, Ray sold the business to a large privately held company. [4] The new company was established under the 'Uncle Ray's, LLC' name. [4] Jenkins is a Christian. [1]
The residence carries the name of its early occupant, Benjamin Morton (1875–1952). Morton was the president of the wholesale grocer, H. T. Hackney Company, and served as Knoxville's mayor from 1924 until 1927. The Benjamin Morton House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1] Its grounds include extensive gardens. [2]
One section of Glenwood Avenue was known as "Doctors' Hill," since nearly every home on the block was occupied by a physician. Business leaders living in the neighborhood included Brookside Cotton Mill manager William Lang, H. T. Hackney Company president (and later mayor of Knoxville) Benjamin Morton, and several Southern Railway officials.
The house was built for the Shedd family, who operated an early wholesale grocery. The family lived there until 1912; Eggleston Dunn of the Dunn-Taft Dry Goods Co. subsequently lived there until the early 1940s. The house then became used for commercial purposes, including office space for the architects Tibbals, Crumley and Musson. [2]
Farm Crest was founded around 1930 as a cake manufacturer, based in Detroit. The founder's son, Raymond Grennan, assumed control of the company in 1936 and began its cookie manufacturing the following year. [4] The building's construction was approved on June 23, 1947 [2] and began in September of that year, [3] and had an estimated cost of ...