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  2. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Tobacco in America (UNC 1949) online good brief introduction to pre-1799 era pp 3-73. Salmon, Emily & Salmon, John. "Tobacco in Colonial Virginia" in Encyclopedia Virginia (2020) online. Walsh, Lorena S. "Summing the parts: implications for estimating Chesapeake output and income subregionally". William and Mary Quarterly 56.1 ...

  3. Kintner–Withers House - Wikipedia

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    It is one of only 2 "antebellum plantation-style" complexes known to remain in Indiana, comprised originally on 600 acres (240 ha) of land (this eventually peaked at 1000 acres). It is believed that Kintner was inspired to build this after sailing on the Mississippi River to New Orleans .

  4. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Tobacco in America (UNC 1949) Robert, Joseph Clarke. "The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860 (Duke University Press, 1938). Tilley, Nannie May The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860–1929 ISBN 0-405-04728-2. online; Tilley, Nannie May The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (1985) online

  6. Category:Tobacco plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Tobacco plantations in the United States" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Lewis Wimbish Plantation

  7. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cotton became a major plantation crop after 1800 in the "Black Belt," and throughout the region from North Carolina in an arc through Texas where the climate allowed for cotton cultivation. [3] Apart from the tobacco and rice plantations, the great majority of farms were subsistence, producing food for the family and some for trade and taxes.

  8. History of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    This 1670 painting shows enslaved Africans working in the tobacco sheds of a colonial tobacco plantation. In 1609, English colonist John Rolfe arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, and became the first settler to successfully raise tobacco (commonly referred to at that time as "brown gold") [21] for commercial use.

  9. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Chicago: Today, Glessner House Museum Marshall Field House 1873 Second Empire: Richard Morris Hunt: Chicago: Demolished in 1955 Thomas Dent House 1881 Romanesque: Burnham & Root: Chicago: Demolished in 1950s Joseph Sears House 1882 Romanesque: Burnham & Root: Chicago: Demolished in 1967 John W Doane Mansion 1882 Romanesque: Theodore V. Wadskier ...