Ward's Feed Store

This store has been in the heart of downtown Kingsport since 1946, when J. E. Ward opened it. He worked at the place until just recently, family members say. Too frail now, the store is in Allen Ward's care, and he is carrying on the family tradition without many changes, although times have indeed altered the products the store carries for farmers. About the time World War II was heating up, J.E. Ward took a chance. He decided to manufacture his own horse feed and named it Ward's Sweet Feed. The sweet feed is still made the same way, manufactured around the corner from the store in the Ward Feed mill. The feed store carries a range of seeds (mostly in packages, whereas in the old days, you would have scooped them out of wooden drawers). Some of today's seeds are considered heirloom in the North, like half runner beans, whereas 60 years ago, and even today in East Tennessee, they are just half runner pole bean vines. One thing, though, has remained consistent down through time. At Ward's Feed Store, you can find the right stuff and the right answers.
That may be what keeps the store in business.
Jeff Fleming May 19,2006 http://jefffleming.blogspot.com/2006/05/downtown-kingsport-store-featured-in.html