On the eve of the Civil War, the principal manufactur- 

 ing centers for tobacco were Richmond, Petersburg, 

 Lynchburg and Danville, Virginia; New York City; 

 Clarksville, Tennessee; Louisville and Henderson, Ken- 

 tucky; Fayette, Missouri; Milton, North Carolina and 

 St. Louis. 



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South Street, in New York City, was a busy commercial district in 1829. 



hipping turns South 



With the emergence of Hampton Roads, Virginia, as 

 a major shipping area after 1900, the popularity of New 

 York Harbor for shipment of tobacco products began 

 to decline. In 1893, the editor of the Southern Tobacco 

 Journal had commented: 



Thousands of hogsheads of tobacco are an- 

 nually shipped from the Carolinas and Virginia 

 to New York and thence by steamer to their 

 destination on the other side of the Atlantic. 



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