Source: Jon Dawson, KINSTON FREE PRESS, 10/3/16


The first Knott’s Tobacco warehouse was started in Kinston in 1901 by Henry T. Knott and George W. Knott. The currently-operating Knott’s warehouse was founded in 1948 by Graham Knot Jr.’s father, Henry Graham Knott, and was initially known as “Knott’s New Warehouse.”Graham Knott Jr., 61, is the owner/operator of Knott’s Tobacco warehouse in Kinston and a tobacco farmer as well.

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