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Henry Ford had the Bakery building constructed in 1941 to provide fresh baked goods for employees of his Richmond Hill Plantation. It operated together with the adjacent Commissary and Post Office buildings, giving Ford employees and other area residents convenient shopping access. During the Ford era at Richmond Hill, Ira C. Womble, Sr. managed the Bakery. One distinctive feature of its operation was the use of soybean flour supplied for experimental purposes by the noted agriculturist and Ford friend George Washington Carver of Tuskegee Institute.
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Richmond Hill, Georgia · United States