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Lorenz, Stacy L. " 'To Do Justice to His Majesty, the Merchant and the Planter': Governor William Gooch and the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 108 (2000): 345–392. online; McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 (University of North Carolina ...
The land for the farm was patented in two separate tracts of 150 acres each by Peter Jefferson in 1740 and 1755. [1] After he had the forest land cleared by enslaved people, he grew tobacco. [2] When he died, the property passed to his son, Thomas Jefferson. [1] The farm was part of the original 5,000 acres that Jefferson owned. [3]
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
The development of tobacco as an export began in Virginia in 1614 when one of the English colonists, John Rolfe, experimented with a plant he had brought from the West Indies, 'Nicotania tabacum. In the same year, the first tobacco shipment was sent to England. The British prized tobacco, for it was a way to display one's wealth to the public.
The Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District is a national historic district located at Danville, Virginia. The district includes 532 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the city of Danville. The district reflects the late-19th century and early-20th development of Danville as a tobacco ...
American tobacco farmers sold their crops on consignment to merchants in London, which required them to take out loans for farm expenses from London guarantors in exchange for tobacco delivery and sale. [2] As the demand for tobacco grew in continental Europe, further colonization and tobacco production in British America saw a parallel ...
Buckshoal Farm is a historic home and tobacco farm located near Omega in Halifax County, Virginia.Typical of early homes in the area, which were expanded in various architectural styles during the previous 150 years, it is best known as the birthplace, favorite retreat and eventual death location of Virginia Governor and later U.S. Congressman William M. Tuck, who called it by this name (after ...
Toombs Tobacco Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Red Oak, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA.Contributing resources include the main residence, summer kitchen, family cemetery, tobacco barns, smoke house, animal pens and other ancillary structures.