Colonial Tobacco Harvest
It was a time when tobacco was king, the year 1771.
Tobacco was the essential 18th century America crop and was often used by colonists as cash to pay for goods and their farm land rent.
Visit the Claude Moore Colonial Farm just outside of Washington, DC and see what it was like to live on a lower-income tobacco farm, just a few years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Now that the tobacco leaves are ripe and ready for harvest, join the volunteer farmers and colonists as they clean, cut and split their harvest and prepare the tobacco for …read more
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