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GRANVILLE, North Carolina in the 1880s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. North Carolina Piedmont is the Place to Grow Yellow Tobacoo
    date 1880map GRANVILLE, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    By 1880, no longer did the farmers of North Carolina have to leave their great state and move to western lands to grow the bustling corn crop because they failed to produce agriculture at home. Not only was North Carolina's climate suitable to grow a variety of crops to be grown anywhere in the United States, but the years preceding 1880 witnessed the transformation of North Carolina Yellow Tobacco...

  2. Farmer's Alliance as a Political Alliance
    date February 6, 1883map GRANVILLE, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Government, Politics

    The threat of a trust formed between cigarette manufacturers in order to control the price of Bright Leaf tobacco grown in the North Carolina Piedmont greatly alarmed the members of the Farmer's Alliance living in the Bright Belt region of North Carolina where this tobacco was grown. In order to prevent just five individuals or corporations from dictating the price of a product whose production affects...