pounds annually from well below 60 million during the 

 British embargo. 



In 1816, tobacco production around the Nashville- 

 Clarksville areas was estimated at 10,000 hogsheads. 

 With tobacco as a well established, staple crop, the 

 business of shipping leaf down the Mississippi to New 

 Orleans was becoming more lucrative with each passing 

 day. The postwar era was truly that of good feeling. 

 Commerce and trade flourished as it never had before. 



In 1830, the western tobacco fields of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee were turning out one-third of the nation's 

 crop. The Tennessee tobacco industry, for the first time, 

 was making the transition from a supplier of tobacco 

 for export and home use to a supplier of raw material 

 for domestic manufacture. During that same year, one- 

 fifth of the crop was not sent out of the country. It 

 stayed in the United States instead for domestic manu- 

 facture, an ever-growing industry. Twenty-one Ten- 

 nessee counties were each producing more than a 

 million pounds of tobacco and of these, eight produced 

 almost two million pounds. Both Clarksville and 

 Springfield were becoming popular as the largest dark- 

 fired tobacco markets in the world, as more farmers 

 were marketing their leaf on "home ground," and 

 fewer were "prizing" it for shipment to New Orleans. 



A 



n expanded, market 



In 1834, the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad 

 was completed to Knoxville, supplying, for the first 

 time, rail transport to the Atlantic ports and opening 

 middle Tennessee to more trade. 



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