Q: The implications of tobacco on the labor needs of Virginia were very profound. Talk to me about that. A: Tobacco was to have an enormous influence on the subsequent settlement and development ...

Abingdon's deep history dates back to the 1700s, when it was home to ... Abingdon is now home to Virginia's largest burley tobacco market while mostly thriving as a tourist town.

I like the irony of a man who had presumably chosen the anti-slavery motif smoking tobacco grown by slaves in Virginia. The pipe brings together C18th technology, a great industrialist ...