On you right is Stratton Seed Company. In 1926 P. O. Peterson organized the Southern Rice Farms and built a storage warehouse to store the rice from the farms. The men on these farms worked for a share of the crop. Later large bins were built for grain storage. The seed processing plant was sold to Stratton Seed Company in 1989.
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Historians generally agree W. H. Fuller introduced rice to the Grand Prairie. In 1896, while on a hunting trip, Mr. Fuller observed rice being grown and harvested in Louisiana. He decided to experiment in Arkansas. He went to Louisiana, bought a well rig, seed rice and well materials, loaded a car and came back to Lonoke County in the fall of 1903. During the winter of 1903-04, he put down a well and installed machinery.