Gypsum to become the fifth company president. In Hugh F. Swaney came to Kingsport from the Mexican operations of U. Quebecor World, a company that began in Montreal, Canada, in , become owner of the former Kingsport Press, having acquired it when it purchased Arcata Graphics in the s.
It ranked as one of the largest bookmaking companies in the world. Products of this graphic communications industry included elementary, high school, and college textbooks and workbooks; reference sets; book club selections; Bibles and hymnals; blank books and specialty binders; juvenile books; university press books; dictionaries; and school yearbook covers.
In April , Quebecor World announced that it would close the Kingsport Press plant by the third quarter of that year. By , the Kingsport Press site had become a hub of downtown activity designed to implement the goals of the Kingsport Economic Summit.
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Dennis and Blair and Company of New York around Fred Johnson, Carter's brother-in-law, as the principal promoter for the new town. Kingsport's initial planning included the social and economic as well as the physical. Cheap land, low-cost nonunion labor, natural resources, and the desire to create traffic for the railroad were the foundations of Kingsport; interlocking industries that did business with each other while developing outside markets provided the economic base.
Dennis and Johnson sought advice from a variety of experts but never forfeited decision-making to them. John B. For assistance with the development of a school system the KIC looked to Columbia University and the nearby state normal school at Johnson City; for sewerage, sanitation, and disease-prevention, F.
KIC lawyers prepared a draft of the articles of incorporation, submitted the document to several southern authorities for evaluation, and consulted the Bureau of Municipal Research in New York. Incorporated in , Kingsport seems to have been the first municipality in Tennessee to be established under a city manager-board of mayor and alderman government. During the growth of industrialization at the turn of the century, the Black community grew significantly as families moved from agricultural work to urban service provision and factory work.
Black educational facilities, churches, businesses and clubs were eventually developed in support of these growing communities. One such neighborhood that was created specifically for African Americans to live during the Jim Crow era was Riverview.
Built on the site of a toxic waste dump, Riverview become the hub of Black education, business and socialization. This project was made possible through the support of:.
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