Record #:

14368

Author(s):

Dean, Earl

Abstract:

Using W. Duke & Sons tobacco factory as the focal point, this article delivers a brief history of early cigarette manufacturing in North Carolina. Making cigarettes in their factories gave Duke & Sons a new market with less competition than the solely tobacco growing competition.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 16 Issue 36, Feb 1949, p9, il

Subject(s):

Tobacco industry--Durham; Duke, Washington, 1820-1905; Cigarette manufacture and trade