We all know the story of Christopher Columbus bringing back tobacco from the New World, and then Sir Walter Raleigh’s maid tried to put him out after he’d caught on fire.
They name tobaccos after Sir Walter Raleigh.
But the Virginia pipe tobacco in our pipes really got it’s start from the man who married Pocahontas.
(Travis Kelce and Greg Allman also have other achievements)
Rolfe didn’t discover tobacco and he wasn’t the first to sell tobacco from Spanish seeds, but he did start the export of Virginia tobacco by somehow experimenting with a new kind of tobacco crop in Virginia.
I wonder if there are any true heirloom Virginia tobacco strains left from 400 years ago?
And if there are, do they smell good to the ladies in the room?
They name tobaccos after Sir Walter Raleigh.
But the Virginia pipe tobacco in our pipes really got it’s start from the man who married Pocahontas.
(Travis Kelce and Greg Allman also have other achievements)
Rolfe didn’t discover tobacco and he wasn’t the first to sell tobacco from Spanish seeds, but he did start the export of Virginia tobacco by somehow experimenting with a new kind of tobacco crop in Virginia.
John Rolfe (d. 1622) - Encyclopedia Virginia
Early Years Little is known of Rolfe’s parentage or early life. While historians and genealogists have generally maintained that he was baptized in Heacham, Norfolk County, England, on May 6, 1585, and was the son of John Rolfe and Dorothy (Dorothea) Mason Rolfe, this is unlikely to be true...
encyclopediavirginia.org
I wonder if there are any true heirloom Virginia tobacco strains left from 400 years ago?
And if there are, do they smell good to the ladies in the room?
