PBS

A Tobacco Plantation

click image for close-up A Tobacco Plantation was the title page for the 1788 publication The Federalist. Authored by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist is a collection of ...
PBS

Anthony Johnson

In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...
Richmond

Wilton House: How a mansion that once stood at the center of a busy tobacco plantation in eastern Henrico County became a museum in Richmond’s West End

Doug Childers/Homes Correspondent Sep 28, 2024 Sep 28, 2024 0 Many houses tell simple stories. They offer shelter and – if the residents are lucky – a comforting sense of home. Wilton House, in ...
WKRN-TV

Tobacco, whiskey and agriculture make up Robertson County’s rich history

ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — If there is one person who knows Robertson County history like the back of her hand, it’s Greenbrier native and County Historian Yolanda Reid. “I was surrounded by ...