If you ask anyone in Tucker County they're sure to know what Kingsford Charcoal is as the company has been an integral part of the community for as long as most residents can remember.
Most residents however wouldn't know that Kingsford Charcoal was a company founded by Henry Ford and originally known simply as Ford Charcoal. Henry Ford as everyone knows was a pioneer in the automotive industry, at the time car manufacturing used a lot of wooden parts around a hundred board feet per Model T and with over a million vehicles sold in 1919 alone this left plenty of scrap wood laying around. The Ford Charcoal company was started as a way to deal with this otherwise unusable byproduct of the automotive fabrication process.
Over the years Ford Charcoal evolved into the Clorox owned Kingsford Charcoal we all know and grill with today and our stomachs and grills thank you for your contribution Mr. Ford.
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