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The American Tobacco Historic District is a historic tobacco factory complex and national historic district located in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings and three contributing structures built by the American Tobacco Company and its predecessors and successors from 1874 to the 1950s.
In 1964, when the U.S. Surgeon General first warned of the danger of smoking, there were nearly 88,000 tobacco farms in North Carolina, according to Matthew Vann, an N.C. State associate professor ...
Today, the site is a museum where tourists can view the restored 1852 Duke Homestead with four furnished rooms, tobacco barns and various artifacts. The visitor center features the Tobacco Museum, with exhibits about tobacco farming, processing and the history of tobacco. Various readings and presentations are available in the Visitor Center.
In Kentucky, instead of curing tobacco attached to laths in vented tobacco barns as they once did, farmers are increasingly curing tobacco on "scaffolds" in the fields. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The 1805 Tracy's Landing Tobacco House No. 2 located at Tracy's Landing, Maryland , was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Eldon B. Tunstall Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina.The farmhouse was built about 1907, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house, with a one-story full facade porch.
Oliver–Morton Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Oak Hill, Granville County, North Carolina.The Samuel V. Morton farmhouse was built about 1890, and is a two-story, three-bay, Italianate style I-house dwelling.
Completed (with two stories) in 1862 on Halifax St., the building was home to one of the earliest North Carolina railroads, the Raleigh & Gaston, eventually incorporated into the 20th century's Seaboard Coast Line. Acquired by the state in the 1970s for use as an office building and moved to its present location on N. Salisbury St.
19th century homestead of a traveling physician, Dr. Edward Hiram Ward (August 1829 – June 1896) was the son of Hiram Ward (1794–1842) and Sara Hackney (1806–1848) and lived in Chatham County, North Carolina. Private residence, outdoor wedding and event location venue - Ward's Hollow. 55: Whitehead-Fogleman Farm: July 5, 1985