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Bakeries:
In 1900, about 95 percent of Virginia bread was baked at home, and only 5 percent was made commercially. By 1950, those figures had completely reversed.
Corby Baking Company of Richmond was the largest bakery in the South by 1917. Its workers made 100,000 loaves daily, shipped to all parts of the region. Richmond's Nolde's Bakery began in 1892 as a retail store but became a wholesale supplier of cakes, breads, and other baked goods to grocery stores in Virginia, and later North Carolina. By 1917, Nolde's employed 130 workers and had thirty delivery wagons. Within twenty-five years, it became Virginia's largest independent bakery, employing 450 people at factories in Richmond, Petersburg, and Norfolk. |