Tour 4: 
Tobacco Road - From Farm to Factory

North Carolina is the number one tobacco producing state in the nation and tobacco has supported family farms for generations.  To begin the tour, we will visit Davis Farms to learn about tobacco production. Next, the Duke Homestead historical site will take us back in time to see how tobacco came to be such an important part of North Carolina agriculture.  Washington Duke, an Orange County farmer, would return from the Civil War and lead his family in creating the largest tobacco manufacturing company in the world.  Finally, we will visit the RJ Reynolds’ Tobaccoville cigarette manufacturing plant, one of the largest cigarette plants in the world.  Come join us for this exciting tour.  Minimum age of 21 for industry tour.

Davis Farms

 

Duke Homestead

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