CONNECTICUT VALLEY TOBACCO MUSEUM

You were naïve to believe tobacco is only grown in the south. “The John E. Luddy/Gordon S. Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the scope of the tobacco industry in Tobacco Valley, which stretches from Portland, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River Valley through Massachusetts and the lower tip of Vermont. The museum seeks to preserve the artifacts and history of cigar tobacco agriculture before it is completely gone from the valley and to increase public awareness of the importance of the economic, political, and social impact of the tobacco industry on the history of this valley.” Text borrowed directly from the museum’s website: RE: http://www.tobaccohistsoc.org/general.htm.