Chattem Chemicals

It was founded as the Chattanooga Medicine Company on February 21, 1879. Operations began in a modest two-story brick building located on a muddy, unpaved road named Market Street in downtown Chattanooga. The Chattanooga Medicine Company was the manufacturer of many recognizable products, including Thedford's Black Draught®, a senna-based laxative originally developed by Dr. A.Q. Simmons of Snow Hill, Georgia, in 1840.