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Tobacco’s Role in Early America Highlighted at Whitaker Park Tour
A revised RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co tour at Whitaker Park in Winston-Salem underscores tobacco’s pivotal part in American growth from Jamestown to westward expansion. The piece traces tobacco’s economic power, taxes, export value, and its use as currency, plus its influence on Virginia and Maryland’s founding and on Jefferson’s western plans.
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Winston-Salem
Jamestown
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Whitaker Park
U.S
Theountry
Virginia
Maryland
George Calvert
Newfoundland Island
New World
James I
Newfoundland
Chesapeake Bay
Continental Congress
Benjmin Franklin
George Cornwallis
Thomas Jefferson
Elk Island
Jefferson