for every farmer to put in at least five acres of 

 tobacco. If we go into tobacco, there is every 

 reason to believe that our financial conditions 

 will improve. 



A market opened in Blackshear on July 17, 1919 and 

 the Times marked the importance of the event: 



Today marked an epoch in the history of 

 Pierce County with the opening of the tobacco 

 market. . . . Buyers represented all of the 

 principal markets of the country and the 

 market opened very active with prices ranging 

 all the way from one cent to 55 cents. 



Downtown Atlanta today— the industrial and 

 cultural center of the South. 



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