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Watts and Yuille Warehouses, also known as Brightleaf Square, are two historic tobacco storage warehouses located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. They are part of the Bright Leaf Historic District. They were built in 1904, and are two identical buildings parallel to each other with a courtyard in between.
Brightleaf tobacco leaf ready for harvest: When it turns yellow-green, the sugar content is at its peak, and it will cure to a deep golden color with a mild taste. The leaves are harvested progressively up the stem from the base, as they ripen. Sometime after the War of 1812, demand for a milder, lighter, more aromatic tobacco arose.
Tobacco chewing gum A gum containing nicotine or tobacco designed to be chewed. Tobacco edibles, often in the form of an infusion or a spice, have gained popularity in recent years. Tobacco water is a traditional organic insecticide used in domestic gardening. Tobacco dust can be used similarly.
The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860(Duke University Press, 1938), a major scholarly study. Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America (1959), by a scholar. online; Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South (Yale University Press, 2014) 360pp
Brightleaf tobacco leaf ready for harvest. When it turns yellow-green the sugar content is at its peak, and it will cure to a deep golden color with mild taste. The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit corporation based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in the United States, that was created in 1999 to receive half of the funds coming to North Carolina from the master settlement agreement with ...
Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually grown herbaceous plant of the genus Nicotiana. N. tabacum is the most commonly grown species in the genus Nicotiana, as the plant's leaves are commercially harvested to be processed into tobacco for human use.
The Triangle’s most prolific restaurateur will add a new local piece to Durham’s revamped Brightleaf Square.
Bright Leaf is the name of a strain of tobacco. [1] It was also the name of a 1949 novel and 1950 feature film about a struggle between two tobacco barons.. The struggle depicted in the feature film, according to McElwee family tradition, parallels one between McElwee's great-grandfather and the patriarch of the Duke family, for whom Duke University is named.