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Tobacco Towns

Central

A Tobacco Town Transformed: Durham

A mural artist re-creates the hustle and bustle of the local bright leaf trade on the wall of an old tobacco auction warehouse.

by Katey Rich
Eastern

A Tobacco Town Transformed: Wilson

A former tobacco salesman watches over the evolution of his family’s old marketplace into a modern living complex.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Central

A Tobacco Town Transformed: Winston-Salem

R.J. Reynolds’s old tobacco campus is now a center for innovation.

by Robin Sutton Anders
Features

When the Smoke Cleared: Growing Up in a Tobacco Town

Bittersweet memories of growing up in a tobacco town reveal the complicated relationship between a community’s main industry and the families who paid dearly for it.

by Debbie Moose

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