TENNISON BROTHERS

Railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground and were the major avenue by which materials were transported to and from the Tennison Brothers Building by steam locomotives. In the mid-1950s, diesel engines replaced the steam locomotives. The Tennison Brothers building is located at Broad and Hickory Streets in Texarkana, Arkansas. A youthful photo of James Morgan Tennison can be seen in the upper right of this image. This image is from Page 3 of the "Tennison Brothers Catalog #5."... This corrugated sheet metal factory building was attached to the back of the hardware store established in 1891 in Mount Pleasant, Texas, by James Morgan Tennison. It was here that sheet metal buckets became the first manufactured and distributed by the Tennison Brothers. Henry Booker Tennison was the first traveling salesman for the Tennison Brothers. This image is from Page 2 of the "Tennison Brothers Catalog #5."... The caption at the upper left-hand corner of the architectural sketch above indicates..

Also known as: Tennison Brothers of Texarkana, Inc., Tennison Brothers, Inc., Tennison Manufacturing Company

Primary location: St. Marys Canada