The tobacco plant developed into such a huge industry that it was used as currency, for taxes, and to buy people including slaves. Jamestown's growing tobacco industry led to the importation of ...

Soon, he and other settlers were exporting large quantities of tobacco, England’s first cash crop in the future United States. He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream from Jamestown ...

Two years later, the colonists began to experiment with various types of tobacco. The plant grew successfully in the Carribean. Now they found a variety that was well-suited to Virginia.

A Jamestown, N.Y., man faces charges after allegedly selling tobacco products without a license in Conewango Township. The state Bureau of Enforcement and Taxpayer Assistance cited Michael R.

Only three years later, a staggering 55,000 pounds of tobacco reached English markets. Jamestown had found a way to survive: by growing and selling tobacco. But all these new tobacco fields ...

Their quest for understanding history through tobacco also takes the field school to both Historic Jamestowne and the Jamestown Settlement. It was at Jamestown, Kern says, where tobacco “changed the ...

Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent British ... "In Virginia at this time you could make a fortune from tobacco if you had the resources to acquire land and labour.

Creditors of three major tobacco companies will get the chance to weigh in on a proposed multi-billion-dollar settlement in ...

All tobacco products including chewing tobacco and e-cigarettes, are prohibited. The use of private fireworks and sparklers are prohibited in the city of Jamestown and, thus, the Labor Day Festival.

The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Jamestown Police Department, under the direction of Chief Timothy Jackson, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, under the ...

Had Measure 5 been approved, the use of recreational marijuana and cannabis products by those 21 and older would have become ...