January 13, 1909

A charter was issued to operate the Carlisle Rice Mill in Carlisle (Lonoke County), which was leased to the Arkansas State Rice Milling Company in 1916 and purchased by that company in 1917. In 1965, the name became Riviana Foods. The facility processes about two million hundredweight of rice annually and also makes the crisped rice for the Nestlé Crunch candy bar, among other confections.

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