Artifacts in the tobacco museum date back to the early 1800s and informs us on the process of making cigars for people to smoke. This this museum consisted of two buildings, one being an old tobacco shed and the other, inside. The old tobacco shed is filled with tools and machinery used out in the tobacco fields, has different varieties of tobacco seeds, and some hanging dried tobacco. Inside were videos describing the process in depth and also many different wooden cigar boxes. This is it conveys the hard work and economical opportunity here in the first Town of Connecticut. Windsor would not be the place it is today if tobacco farms never existed and if the Connecticut Valley tobacco historical society was not formed to preserve artifacts used in this process, people would not understand how Windsor came to be. The tobacco industry was very profitable made many men very wealthy back in the day. Connecticut Valley cigars were of some of the highest grade, top quality cigars made in the country. There was a very diverse group of people that worked for these farms. Mainly males worked out in the fields and mainly females worked rolling and packing tobacco. Shade tobacco, the tobacco used for the outside of cigars, can only be grown in the Connecticut River Valley and not any were else in the the entire United States. People working on these tobacco farms were not having fun, they working for their families or freedom so that they could do something better with the money they saved, something they wanted to do. While the industry was through the 1940s, a combination of researchers publishing a report on the correlation between cancer and tobacco and cigarets becoming more popular than cigars led to the decline the cigar industry. I believe that there should have been a section of the museum talking about the affects of tobacco.
Sources: Windsor Historical society, http://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/tobacco-windsors-cash-crop/
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Positive: Very informative, lots of information in efficient sentences with all of the important events accounted for in great depth. The ending sentence is good as well because it is very thought inspiring.
Critical: It’s stated that this tobacco museum is important as it if it was not there then people would not be able to learn about the history of Windsor, but never explicitly explain why. You do talk about the economic opportunity, but you do not say who the people were who took this opportunity or benefitted from it.
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The largest tobacco farming company in Windsor is owned by a white family with the last name of Thrall. They owned a large portion of Windsor back in the day and still own quite a bit of Windsor’s land today. They acquired this land from the king of England himself. This wealthy family benefited the most out of anyone in Windsor.
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