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Tobacco Use Began Early In America
The gallery note traces tobacco from colonial days through the 19th century. It describes chewing in Congress and society, the spread of chewing tobacco in Virginia and North Carolina by 1860, tobacco as money in Maryland, and the shift of tobacco farming westward as soil declined. It also notes regional production in the North and rising Wisconsin output.
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