There is a new sign in the window at Luck's Cannery. The town has committed an additional $20,000 for refurbishment of the space to include finishing out a larger meeting room. Total cash contributions pledged now exceed $130,000.
If you are considering opening a business there isn't a safer choice than right here in Seagrove, NC. Any improvements to the building are credited toward your lease cost. Donations are considered charitable contributions for tax purposes, but check with your tax adviser for details.
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The original name of Luck's Inc. was Mountain View Canning. While working in the building we found this sign painted on what used to be an exterior wall.
Tonight, Army Special Forces Training will hold an exercise at the Luck's Cannery site. Sapona Plastics and the Town of Seagrove have been providing this location after dark for unconventional warfare training usually with a lot of automatic and large caliber gunfire (with blanks.)
A required sprinkler head was installed and the Town of Seagrove is getting Luck's Cannery ready for town hall meetings.
If you have any historical stories or information about Luck's Inc. we would like to gather it together. There will be space at the Luck's Cannery to archive historical artifacts but if you could also provide memories by posting comments to this blog it would be helpful to have some historical perspective from those who worked at the cannery or interacted with it.
For example, I ran into Don Monroe who said his father came to Seagrove in 1947 to open a service station near the cannery. He remembered taking the Trailways bus which stopped in Seagrove on its route between Southern Pines and Asheboro. dcarter397 and this from LInda Carter: I am so proud of the Lucks Cannery. My father was the secretary/treasurer for many years until they sold out. Thank you for what y’all have done for Seagrove, the citizens and the many employees of Lucks. Luck's Beans have also made Seagrove famous. This business was started in 1947 as Mountain View Canning Company by Alfred Spencer and Ivey Luck to do home canning for people of the area with the production of approximately 200 cans per hour. In 1948 Clay Presnell joined the company. In 1953 the name of the company was changed to Luck's. Incor- porated, when C.C. Smith bought an interest in it. By 1967 the company had expanded to produce more than fourteen items and the management de- cided to merge with American Home Products. (Randolph County 1779-1979, Library of UNC-CH) Written by North Carolina History Project Since the 1800s, the Piedmont had long been the most industrialized Tar Heel region and continued to do so in the following century. During the mid-twentieth century manufacturing jobs started providing the majority of employment for North Carolinians. In Seagrove (southern Randolph County), Alfred Spencer and Ivey B. Luck started Mountain View Canning Company in 1947. A year later H. Clay Presnell joined Spencer and Luck on their entrepreneurial adventure. In 1953, the owners changed the company name to Luck’s Incorporated and increased the number of local food products to be canned (Pinto beans were the company’s most famous product). After merging with American Home Products in 1967, Luck’s Incorporated produced twenty-four meat and vegetable items. During the latter half of the twentieth century and the first years of the twentieth century, North Carolina’s manufacturing sector revealed signs of deterioration, and such signs were seen clearly in Randolph County. There, several companies closed plants: B. B. Walker Company, Black and Decker, and Luck’s Incorporated. ConAgra Grocery Products purchased Luck’s in 2001 and in the following year closed the Seagrove plant. Eight months later, Seagrove Foods, Inc., reopened the closed plant SourcesL. Barron Mills, Randolph County: A Brief History (Raleigh, 2008). |
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