Admission: $2 for adults, $1 for children and senior citizens age 65 and over. For school and tour group rates or to make advance reservations, inquire about memberships or obtain more information: (919) 284-3431"
BUSINESS: WEBSITE: http://www.tobmuseum.bbnp.com
Wilson, NC
19 tobacco warehouses make Wilson one of the largest tobacco markets in the U.S. (the third-largest in the world is in Zimbabwe)
The Growers Cooperative Warehouse
This is a huge, corrugated steel building 5 football fields long--filled with mounds of tobacco, if you hit it during the right season. Watch the fast-paced, high-pressure, nearly incomprehensible auction process.
On Route 301. Between July and October, arrange for a personal guided tour by calling Wilson Visitors Bureau, run by the Chamber of Commerce (252-237-0165).
Durham, NC
Nee The Bull City; now City of Medicine USA; pop: 200,000
Durham Visitor Information Center (919) 687-0288 or (800) 446-8604.
Lodging hotline for peak periods (919) 687-0288.
Brightleaf Square
Dine in one of the many restaurants in these 2 converted 19th-century brick tobacco warehouses that are part of Durham's attempt at downtown urban renewal. All the shops and boutiques carry signs that read, This is a smoke-free facility
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Plant
The smell of tobacco here is one of Durham's trademarks.
Duke University
In 1924 Buck Duke offered Trinity College $40 million if it would change its name to Duke University. No problem. See the monument to his father, Washington Duke, at the head of Campus Drive.
Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club
Lots of Duke family memorabilia around this Duke U.-owned 18-hole club.
(919) 490-0999.
See the Latest exhibits here: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/duke/duke.htm
See nearby attractions and lodging at: Step into History
The womb of the tobacco business as we know it today. A working tobacco farm, mock auctions, holiday events, special depictions of occasions in tobacco country with a concentration on the 1870s, a newsletter, olden ads and memorabilia and more. Sponsored by NC's Tobacco History Corporation.
Still standing Is:
Washington Duke's Original Home, built in 1852
Duke lived in this house with his family until 1874.
Washington Duke's original log "tobacco factory"
Suggested Reading: The Dukes of Durham 1865-1929, Robert F. Durden, Duke University Press, 1987.
Duke Homestead State Historic Site
2828 Duke Homestead Road
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 477-5498
Apr-Oct, M-Sat 9-5, Sun 1-5
Nov-Mar, Tue-Sat 10-4, Sun 1-4
J. Walter Thompson Archives
J. Walter Thompson Archives
Duke University, William Perkins Library
Durham, NC 28352
(919) 276-5880
M-F 8-5, Sat 9-12:30
The American Tobacco trail follows the path of old rail beds that brought tobacco to the American Tobacco warehouse in Durham.
North Carolina Office of Archives and History
109 E. Jones St.
Raleigh, NC 27601
Web Site: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/
Morehead Manor Bed and Breakfast
914 Vickers Ave
Durham, NC 27701
Tel: (919) 687-4366
Fax: (919) 687-4245
Email: moheadmanr@aol.com
http://www.moreheadmanor.com/
Originally built for the CEO of Liggett and Meyers
Raleigh, NC
The State Capital
North Carolina Museum of History
Heavily contributed to by the RJ Reynolds family.
North Carolina Museum of Art
Again, heavily contributed to by the Reynolds family.
Historic Stagville
A pre-Civil War homestead and tobacco farm in Durham County. For more information, contact:
Historic Stagville
P.O. Box 71217
Durham, N.C. 27722-1217
(919) 620-0120.
Winston-Salem, NC
June, 1996: In this city of 150,000, 7,500 people work for RJR, but the leading employer today is the Bowman Gray/Baptist Hospital Medical Center, which specializes in research on arteriosclerosis--including that caused by secondhand smoke. Bowman Gray was an RJR president and board chairman (1931) who guided the company through the twenties and thirties.
Restored colonial Salem
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
One of the finest collections of American Art in the South is housed in the elegant home which tobacco titan Richard Joshua Reynolds built in the 'teens for himself and his wife and three children. (Suggested reading: Patrick Reynolds' The Guilded Leaf, Little, Brown, 1989)
R.J. Reynolds' Whitaker Park cigarette plant
Capacity: 275 million cigarettes a day. Take a free tour, as 34,000 did in 1995. Note: Tours were cancelled as of Jan. 1, 1998. The gift shop and an exhibit area that has tobacco memorabilia, artifacts, and more than 100 years of tobacco-related advertising on display are still open.
(336) 741-5718
Winston Cup Museum
1335 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC
Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12.
http://www.winstoncupmuseum.com
South Carolina
Mullins, SC
The Golden Leaf Festival
is held the fourth weekend in September (Sept. 28,29 this year), celebrating the Pee Dee area's rich tobacco heritage. Only one hour Northwest of Myrtle Beach.
Call co-chair Ann Wethington at 803-464-6204
Or Call 803-464-6651
Mullins Railroad Depot
Money difficulties have delayed plans for a tobacco museum and open air market here. Still, the depot is being used by the Greater Mullins Chamer of Commerce to greet tourists coming to visit warehouses and tobacco auctions here in South Carolina's largest tobacco market, where $60 million worth of tobacco is sold in three weeks. The heart of the season is late July/early August, when the Marion Star and Mullins Enterprise prints its special, Marion County Tobacco Market section.
Mullins City Hall (Information): 803-464-9583
Marion City Hall (Information): 803-423-5961
Georgia
Nicholls, GA
Tobacco Saturday
July 21, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
General Coffee State Park
46 John Coffee Rd.
Nicholls, Ga.
912-384-7082
www.gastateparks.org10
Tour Heritage Farm and learn about tobacco growing and its historical significance to Coffee County. The park stresses it isn't encouraging tobacco use, but illuminating the crop's economic importance. The demonstration runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and includes watermelon snacks (watermelon juice helped tobacco pickers wash off tobacco tar).
Tennessee
Nashville, TN
[This museum was closed by UST in the late '90s--gb]
From locis.gov:
Location: At the corner of 8th Ave. North (Rt. 41-A) and Harrison St.
The Museum is sponsored by the U.S.Tobacco Co.
AREAS OF INTEREST:Tobacco-related art artifacts and historical materials that illustrate the influence and contribution of tobacco on art, the economy, and history.
HOLDINGS:A permanent collection that includes fine art prints, tobacconists' figures, cigar maker's bench, meerschaum pipes, snuff boxes, advertising art, and tobacco-related antiques and collectibles from around the world.
INFORMATION SERVICES:Answers inquiries; provides advisory and reference services; conducts tours and slide/talk lectures; lends materials and exhibits; makes referrals to other sources of information. Services are free and available to anyone by appointment.
Facilities include a gift shop.
LIMITATIONS:Free, restricted; APPRV DATE: 90/02; INFO DATE: 90/02
Museum of Tobacco Art and History
800 Harrison St.
Nashville, TN 37203
Tel:(615) 242-9218
Tue-Sat, 10-4
Kentucky
Louisville, KY
Brown & Williamson HQ
1500 Brown & Williamson Tower
See the building Jeffrey Wigand stared at in The Insider; B&W moved out to merge with RJR in Winston-Salem in 2004.
Louisvilles tobacco district
rom 1865-1929, Louisville passed New Orleans to become the largest tobacco market in the U.S.
The Louisville Encyclopedia notes that there was a "tobacco district" along Main Street between Eighth and 12th streets, lined by tobacco warehouses and by large wooden barrels called hogsheads that held 1,000 to 1,500 pounds of tobacco.
Z. L. Lucas Jr., 79-year-old uncle of George Lucas Jr. and son of the late tobacco man Z. L. Lucas Sr., said his father spoke of an even larger district, though it may have been an exaggeration.
"Daddy said you could walk on hogsheads from Second to 10th or 12th Street," Z.L. Lucas Jr. said. "The whole street would be full."
The encyclopedia says Louisville sold 175,000 hogsheads of tobacco annually before 1900. It said there were 15 tobacco warehouses in town in 1890, and 16 large manufacturing plants for tobacco products, with 79 smaller firms making cigars and snuff.--Louisville Courier-Journal, August 12, 2001
Lancaster, KY
Garrard County Tobacco Festival
First weekend in September.
Russellville, KY
Logan County Tobacco and Heritage Festival
Late September/early October
Tobacco and Rural Heritage Festival in Lancaster is being held this weekend, Sept. 9-10, 2005, celebrating its 30th year. I'm not sure if they've settled on a specific weekend each year, but you might want to just say that it's in September. Also, the name will change next year to Rural Heritage Festival
Tobacco has contributed greatly to Virginia's wealth through the centuries, and now it's contributing a name for a new rails-to-trails initiative.
The Virginia Tobacco Heritage Trail will travel 48 miles through Southside's traditional tobacco-growing region, converting abandoned railroad tracks into a recreational trail. The first 4-mile segment opened last week with a boost from Gov. Mark R. Warner.
The section generally runs parallel to U.S. 58 between Broadnax and LaCrosse, east of South Hill. A grant of $775,000 announced by the governor will help develop the remainder of the 48 miles.
At the opening, Warner announced funding for five Virginia Works initiatives, including the trail. Two others also have tourism components.
A new Tobacco Region Tourism Loan Program will have $1 million available to help start-up and support new and existing shops, hotels, restaurants and other tourism-related businesses in Southside and Southwest Virginia.
Round the Mountain, a newly formed artisan network covering 23 Southwest Virginia localities, will get $195,000 for marketing and developing Southwest Virginia crafts. Two Virginia artisan centers will be created in an effort emulating North Carolina's mountain artisan and craft ventures.
Maryland
Accokeek, MD
National Colonial Farm Of The Accokeek Foundation
3400 Bryan Pt. Rd.
Accokeek, MD 20607
(301) 283-2113
*recreates life on So. Md. tobacco plantation
*T-Su 10-5
St. Mary's City, MD
Historic St. Mary's City
Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation
Artifacts from tobacco plantation. City founded 1634
Historic St. Mary's City
PO Box 39, Rte 5 & Rosecroft Rd
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
301-862-0990
Mechanicsville, MD
Southern Maryland Farm Life Festival
Parlett Fram
Route 6, one mile east of Route 5
October tours on Saturday and Sunday include Parlett Farm's Tobacco Museum
Florida
Tampa, FL
Ybor City
This preservation district, named for Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, a Cuban who established the first cigar factory here in 1886, was once the center of the US cigar industry, and at its peak was home to 20,000 cigar workers.
Walking tours of Ybor City are offered starting at 10:30 AM Thursdays and Saturdays (plus Tuesdays from January to April). Tours begin at the information booth on the first floor of Ybor Square, at 13th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Tampa.
- Ybor City State Museum
1818 E. Ninth Ave 33605
813-247-6323
has cigar-making displays and includes tours of La Casita, a typical cigar worker's home. It's open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. It's closed on major holidays. Admission is $2; under 6 free.
In November, you can attend the annual Tampa Cigar Heritage Festival.
- J.C. Newman Cigar Co. Museum
2701 16th St.
(813) 248-2124.
open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The museum is a casual, two- room, self-guided walk through more than 100 years of cigar-making. Eighteen hanging exhibits represent periods in family and company history. Photos, documents, samples of Newman cigars, packaging, equipment and inventions are on display.
- Tampa Rico Cigar Co.has cigar-making demonstrations.
- Ybor's factory has been transformed into Ybor Square, an antiques mall and nightclub.
- Chamber of Commerce: (813) 248-3712.
- Ybor City on the Internet: http://www2.tia.net/ybor/
Pensylvania
Bradford, PA
Zippo Family Store and Museum
Congress Street
814-368-2863
Lancaster, PA
Tobacco Fields in Amish country
Demuth Tobacco shop
114 E. King St.
Lancaster, PA.
The oldest tobacco shop in the nation was established by Christopher Demuth in 1770.
Missouri
Kansas City, MO
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
One NE Kansas City Place, 24th floor
(1200 Main St.)
Kansas City, MO 64105-2100
(816) 474-6550
The tobacco industry's principal law firm
Easy to find--the tallest skyscraper in KC. But don't bother to visit the firm's reinforced-concrete 24th floor, which is dedicated to its tobacco work, even if you're a partner--you need a specifically coded ID card.
Ohio
Ripley, OH
15th Annual Tobacco Festival, August 22-25, 1996
Last year 60,000 people attended this festival in Ripley (just 50 miles due east of Cincinnatti, along the Ohio river). There'll be a tobacco worm race, wagon backing, tobacco stripping in hand-tied bundles, the cow chip throw, arm wrestling, frog jump, and duck race contests, a garden tractor obstacle course, tobacco plugging contest, tobacco spitting contest and even a tobacco worm race.and a clogging championship.
Contact: Chris Koehler, Bob Koehler or Jennifer Gifford, 513-392-4365, all of the Ohio Tobacco Festival
Ohio Tobacco Museum
703 S. Second St., Ripley, OH 45167.
Admission: Free, but $1 donation appreciated.
Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday April-January. Prescheduled group tours on weekdays.
(937) 392-9410.
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Hennepin Business Center
1021 10th Av. SE
Repository of "Secret Documents" used in the Minnesota Medicaid Suit
03/29/98: Millions of "secret" tobacco documents from the Minnesota case are scheduled to be opened to the public in 15 days. Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune 03/29/98
New York
New York, NY
Tobacco Merchants Association
All aspects of industry, esp. trademarks/brands
1220 Broadway, Suite 705
New York, NY 10001
(212) 239-4435
By appointment only
Arents Tobacco Collection
Room 324
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018-2788
(212) 930-0801
(212) 302-4815 fax
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/arents.html
Howard S. Cullman Library
Tobacco Merchants Association
1220 Broadway, Suite 705
New York, NY 10001
(212) 239-4435
*By appointment only
*All aspects of industry, esp. trademarks/brands
Philip Morris HQ
120 Park Ave., 41st. St. and Park Ave.
Star of Movies ( The Insider) and truth commercials.
110 Fifth Ave
Once the seat of supreme tobacco power--HQ of American Tobacco Company in its heyday. The building's still there, though much changed.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue and 81st St.
Collection of Tobacco Baseball Cards
Rotating stock: if you're lucky, you'll catch the famous Honus Wagner card.
Read about it here
26 Broadway / 22nd floor
New York, NY 10004
voice: 212.943.5858 / fax: 212.943.3211
http://www.prmuseum.com/welcome.html
Lots of info on Bernays, including the 1929 Torches of Freedom campaign.
Bronx, NY
Lorillard Snuff Mill (1792)
New York Botanical Garden
Oklahoma
Guthrie, OK
National Lighter Museum
More than 30,000 cigarette and cigar lighters
http://www.NatLitrMus.com/
Connecticut
Greenwich, CT
Tobacco Museum
Tobacco-related art, artifacts and historical items
Tobacco Museum
96 W. Putnam Ave.
Greenwich, CT 06830
(203) 869-5531
By appointment only
Windsor, CT
135 Lang Rd., Windsor
860-285-1888
Dedicated to the history of tobacco-growing in Connecticut
Preserves history and artifacts of cigar tobacco- growing in Connecticut River Valley. Old equiment on display in tobacco shed. Pictures and literature on display in archives building.
Hours: Summer Hrs. Mon.- Fri. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ; Sat, noon - 4p.m. Winter Hrs: Tues.- Thurs. and Sat., noon - 4 p.m. Closed Dec. 18yj 1998- March 1999
Bradford, PA
Zippo Manufacturing Company
33 Barbour Street, Bradford, PA 16701
http://www.zippo.com/about/history/index.html
Washington, DC
Georgetown
Founded in May of 1751, Georgetown celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2001. Georgetown belonged to Maryland then, and was named for Britain's King George II. It quickly boomed after its founding, doing a brisk trade in tobacco shipping, among other items. By 1790, it was the biggest tobacco exporter in the country.
www.georgetowndc.com
Tobacco Institute Library
Private; concentrates on "smoking & health controversy;" Open to members; ILL available
Tobacco Institute Library
1875 I St., NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 457-4880
m-f 9-5
Reference Library of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Regulatory history
Wisconsin
Edgerton, WI
Edgerton Tobacco Heritage Days
July 19-21, 2002
Edgerton Tobacco Days, Inc.
PO Box 252 Edgerton, WI 53534
608-347-4321
info@tobaccoheritagedays.com
When the first settlers came to the area in the 1840s, tobacco was brought along for personal use only. Periodically, the farmers would send back east for more seed. However, the first really successful crop was raised in 1854 by the Pomeroy brothers who lived south of Edgerton. . . At the turn of the last century and into the 1930s, Edgerton was known as the "Tobacco Capital of the World" and the nickname Tobacco City has stuck around. . . At one time, there were 55 huge tobacco warehouses in the city. . . Tobacco grown here is known as Northern Type, and was mainly used in cigars and for the "binder leaf" which was wrapped around the cigar tobacco itself. . . The industry declined when a "homogenized" binder was developed which could utilize the imperfect leaves, which were unsuitable for binders. These imperfect leaves, were made into tobacco for chewing or for snuff. That is what the tobacco grown today is used for.
Edgerton's yearly celebration of its' farming heritage is held on the third weekend in July. Last year's event drew thousands including those as far away as California, Arizona, and Massachusetts who enjoyed a community reunion of sorts full of wonderful entertainment, family activities, and agricultural experiences.
-- http://www.tobaccoheritagedays.com/heritage.htm
California
Hollywood, CA
Hollywood Entertainment Museum: "Smoke, Lies & Videotape"
March 15th-December 31, 2002
This highly entertaining and interactive experience takes you on an ingenious journey that chronicles the history of smoking in movies, television and other media over the last century.
7021 Hollywood Boulevard,
Hollywood, CA 90028
24-Hour Information: (323) 465-7900
Located in the heart of Hollywood, Hollywood Entertainment Museum is situated on Hollywood Boulevard between Orange Avenue and Sycamore Avenue in the lower level of the Galaxy Building, just one block west of Graumann's Chinese Theater (close proximity to Hollywood & Highland.)
Shell Beach, CA
The National Cigar Museum
Not generally open to the public
CANADA
Delhi, Ontario (Tobacco Capital of Canada)
Delhi Tobacco Museum and Heritage Centre features displays of farming equipment, antique tobacco cutters, a variety of evolving pipes and cigarette brands.
P: 519-582-0278; F: 519-582-0122
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer and District Museum : The Seduction Of Smoking
Saturday, August 04, 2001-Sunday, November 18, 2001
A rare, hand-painted statue is expected to seduce visitors at a new exhibition on the power of tobacco smoke. Lawrie Knight-Steinbach, guest curator of the exhibition, says the Cigar Store Maiden dates back to the 1880s. The statue, borrowed from the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, is typical of the metal figures placed in front of tobacco stores to attract customers. The native woman depicted by the statue carries a package of tobacco in her left hand and tobacco leaves in her right. "The maiden is very, very rare, and we're very pleased to have it," says Ms. Knight-Steinbach. Three years in the making, The Seduction of Smoking examines tobacco's impact on society through history. It features hundreds of artifacts, relics from cigar factories, tobacco cards, smoking jackets, pipes and other paraphernalia. The exhibition also features displays on the impact of smoking on health, tobacco advertising and a computer where visitors can log on to smoking-related Web sites.
Price(s): Free; donations gratefully accepted.
Contact Person: Teresa (403) 309-8405
Contact Person: Diana (403) 309-8450
CHINA
Yunnan Province
China's biggest cigarette production centre is Yunnan Province, home to several popular brands such as Yuxi, Hong tashan, Honghe, Shililng and Yunyan.
Shanghai
China Tobacco Museum
China Tobacco Museum, the first of its kind in the county, opened in July, 2004. It is located at the crossing of Changyang Avenue and Tongbei Avenue in Shanghai.
CUBA
Havana
Havana Cigar Museum
ENGLAND
London
James J. Fox & Robert Lewis
Cigar Merchants since 1787
JJ Fox Museum "Historic Havanas," as well as Sales Ledgers of famous clients (Windston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Prince of Wales, etc.)
JJ Fox & Robert Lewis
19 St James's Street (Piccadilly)
London, SW1A 1ES
Tel:+44 (0)20 7930 3787
Fax:+44 (0)20 7495 0097
http://www.jjfox.co.uk/
Sutton, Norfolk
Broads Tobacco Museum
An extraordinary eclectic assemblage of tobacciana covering the whole quirkiness of the social history of the weed that changed the world. Here we have a custom built hall to house the five rooms depicting the various facets of tobacco history. Visit the Tobacconist and see thousands of cigarettes, some dating back to the late 1800s, along with numerous varieties of tobaccos. Discover the historic cigar box stencils, print blocks and cigar ephemera in the cigar making room. . . . . [a] large display room - with various advertising items and also many of the quirky things produced in association with tobacco.
We consider the story and history of tobacco to be a very important part of social history, often neglected, due to it being a controversial subject.
http://www.broadsmuseum.com/
FRANCE
BERGERAC
Le Muse dIntrt National du Tabac
Maison Peyrarde
Place du Feu
24100 BERGERAC
Tlphone : 05.53.63.04.13 - Fax : 05.53.61.90.02
GERMANY
Westfalen
Tobacco Museum
AUSTRIA
Vienna
Tabakmuseum in the new MuseumsQuartier Wien
"One of the world's most important collections on tobacco history illustrates the cultural development of tobacco from its beginnings in the 15th century to its global economic significance in today's society."
Tel: +43 1/526 17 16
Fax: +43 1/526 1716 10
MuseumsQuartier Wien
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
Vienna's new Museum Quarter, or MuseumsQuartier Wien, is the museum world's answer to the shopping mall. The vast complex combines old and new buildings into a single entity of 20 museums and cultural organizations, plus cafs and shops to provide a break from intellectual overload.
SPAIN
Seville
Fabrica de Tabacos(1757)
The tobacco factory where the female workforce became a favourite subject for excitable Romantic painters from northern Europe, and inspired the character of Carmen. The cigarreras - who, Vicotiran travel guide Richard Ford tells us, "sometimes carry off the filthy weed in a manner her most Catholic majesty never dreamt of" are no longer to be seen. The Fbrica is now the central campus of Seville University.
INDIA
Andhra Pradesh
This state is India's highest tobacco producer, akin to North Carolina or Virginia in the US. The 2nd highest tobacco producing state is Gujarat.
JAPAN
Tokyo
Tobacco and Salt Museum(1757)
Opened in November 1978, the Tobacco and Salt Museum is run by Japan Tobacco Inc.; its predecessor, the Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corp., still has exclusive rights to produce and sell these commodities under a government monopoly.
Location: a seven-minute walk from JR Shibuya Station.
Hours: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. (last admission is at 5:30 p.m.); closed on Mondays and other dates set by the museum.
Phone: (03) 3476-2041.
Admission is 100 yen for college students and adults and 50 yen for high school students and younger.
ZIMBABWE
Harare
Zimbabwe until recently was the third largest tobacco producer behind Brazil and the US; Harare was the home of the world's 3rd largest tobacco auction.
Much thanks to Mike Shoup for the inspiration for this piece: his article "The Tobacco Trail" in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 22, 1995
This document's URL is: http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/tob_tour.html or http://www.tobacco.org/resources/general/tob_tour.html
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