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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.
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 ...
Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing structures in an industrial section of Greenville.
A Wake County tobacco farmer holds a cured leaf at auction in 1995. ... and Vann said in a recent interview that he expected the number to be zero when the 2022 census numbers become available ...
It was built in two sections in 1938 and in 1948. Together it was an expansive frame structure on a brick foundation with low-pitched, front-gabled roofs supported by massive timber columns. The last loose-leaf tobacco auctions were held in downtown Durham in the 1980s. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]
Rowland Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Rowland, Robeson County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Rowland.
Martin said North Carolina should also pass a law raising the state minimum age to legally buy all tobacco products from 18 to 21. He said 95% of cigarette users start before the age of 21.
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.