The large 3 story warehouse at 801 S Main Street was built for the American Tobacco Company in 1895 by contractors Mundo & McGraw. It was sold to the Dark Tobacco Co-operative Association in 1923. It sold to A. Waller in 1929, and again to the Cottingham Grain Company in 1931. Soaper and Hughes Warehouse leased a floor of the building for Tobacco sales that same year.
In 1939 Seiler Hatcheries leased the basement of the building. The location of the hatchery at the Cottingham Grain company’s building with its 4,000 square feet of floor space was made for better control of disease in the baby chicks.
The building was later occupied by Ashland Oil Co., Tri-State Plastics Co., and the Hugh Sandefur Center.
















