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Robertson's Hams

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7352079 ↗
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Robertson's Hams is a food company in the United States that was founded in 1946 by V.B. "Tup" Robertson in Marietta, Oklahoma. Robertson's Hams first opened in downtown Marietta and later located their main plant near I-35 in Marietta. Robertson's is known for its sugar-cured and hickory smoked line of meat products. The family owned meat business has franchise locations throughout Texas and Oklahoma.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robertson's Hams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.