Frackelton Cinder Block (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

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  Robert Leigh Frackelton started his Mayfield-area concrete-block business from scratch in 1946, just in time for the postwar building boom. Twenty-one years later, Frackelton reported in a Free Lance-Star business story, the company was making 15,000 blocks a day and had produced a total of about 30 million since its founding. The vast majority of the blocks were being used for commercial construction. Frackelton died in 1989. His wife, Decca, who had shared management of the company, then took charge but divided her time with her horticultural pursuits. She passed away in 2004. The company remains in business today, with daughter Mary Carter Frackelton at the helm.

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