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Price, Jacob M. France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674–1791, and of its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades (University of Michigan Press, 1973. 2 vols) online book review; Rainbolt, John C. “The Case of the Poor Planters in Virginia for Inspecting and Burning Tobacco.”
Ybor City was annexed by the city of Tampa in 1887 and helped the once small and struggling town grow into an important manufacturing and shipping center by the early 1900s. [ 5 ] The role of Martinez Ybor in helping to build industry in Tampa is covered in displays at the Ybor City Museum State Park .
The cultivation of tobacco as a cash crop in America marks the shift from a subsistence economy to an agrarian economy. Tobacco's desirability and value led to it being used as a currency in colonies. Tobacco was also backed by the gold standard, with an established conversion rate from tobacco to gold.
Jamestown is an unincorporated community in Smith County located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The town was first settled in 1846. The town underwent rapid expansion and a post office was built. The community was primarily focused on growing and shipping cotton.
The bridge was completed on September 8, 1938. The nearby town of Prairie View took on the name "Bridge City" in response. Initially named the Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, it received its current name in 1957. The bridge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. After the completion of the Veterans Memorial Bridge, the ...
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.
Conanicut Island is a beautiful place, but for morning commuters a trip to Jamestown has become a less-than-pleasant experience. Work on the Newport Pell Bridge and toll gantry requires travelers ...
A tobacco bride (or "tobacco wife") is a descriptive name for a young woman that emigrated to Colonial Virginia to marry a settler. Following the settlement of the Jamestown, Virginia colony in the early 1600s there was a vast gender inequality, as most of those who left for Jamestown were men who were tasked with building and establishing the ...