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By the early 20th century, tobacco became king, and by the late 1940s, Fairmont was considered the "Biggest Little Tobacco Market In the World." [5] In 1951 Fairmont sold twice as much tobacco as was grown in Robeson County. As health concerns have affected the sales of tobacco, many local farmers have turned to other cash crops, mainly corn ...
It is a majority-minority county [190] and proportionately has the largest Native American population of any North Carolina county [191] and the smallest white population. [192] Robeson County is included in the Fayetteville-Lumberton-Pinehurst, NC Combined Statistical Area. [193]
Bobbitt–Rogers House and Tobacco Manufactory District is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Wilton, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a two-story, three-bay, center hall plan Greek Revival style frame I-house dwelling.
A Wake County tobacco farmer holds a cured leaf at auction in 1995. Jim Bounds/File photo ... Over the past 50 years, North Carolina tobacco farms have declined in number by about 98%. There’s ...
American Tobacco Company Prizery, also known as the Nantucket Warehouse, is a historic tobacco prizery located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1901 by the American Tobacco Company , and is a two-story, load-bearing brick building that was constructed in five phases beginning about 1901.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Robeson County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
W.T. Blackwell & Co. Tobacco was a tobacco manufacturer in Durham, North Carolina. It was best known as the original producer of Bull Durham Tobacco, the first nationally marketed brand of tobacco products in the United States. The Blackwell tobacco factory in Durham, built in 1874, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Transportation in Robeson County, North Carolina (24 P) Pages in category "Robeson County, North Carolina" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.