SAUK RAPIDS -- It was 100 years ago that
Chester Coborn started selling produce in a little store on Benton Drive and began what we now know as Coborn's Incorporated.
Vice President of Marketing
Dennis Host says the original location was just down the street from where it is today, but the store was actually in several locations in downtown Sauk Rapids during the early years.
So it started in 1921 down on Benton Drive, then they moved in 1925 and again in 1930 as it got bigger. Then the original larger store on the corner of Benton Drive, which is today's parking lot that was built in 1974 and they moved into the current Marketplace building in 1993.