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The complex was constructed beginning in 1938 by the United States Tobacco Company. [3] 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]
In 1911 the American Tobacco Company was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and was split into competing companies American Tobacco, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard, and others. [5] Lorillard ended up buying the warehouse complex in Madison, and its name was long painted across the end of the 1901 building.
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.
To find about future availability in the Lofts on the Square, call Beacon Property Management at 618-825-9011. This firm began handling rental services on July 1.
National Tobacco Works Branch Stemmery; Neal and Dixon's Warehouse; Nissly-Stauffer Tobacco Warehouses; North Charlotte Street Historic District; North Prince Street Historic District; North Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District; North Washington Avenue Workers' House; Northern Wisconsin Co-op Tobacco Pool Warehouse
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R. J. Reynolds, founder Share of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, issued 15 March 1906. The son of a tobacco farmer in Virginia, Richard Joshua "R. J." Reynolds sold his shares of his father's company in Patrick County, Virginia, and ventured to the nearest town with a railroad connection, Winston-Salem, to start his own tobacco company. [3]
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