Local historian Fred Heskethfilled the Community Room
Thirty thousand plus acres of tobacco were cultivated in the Connecticut River Valley in the 1920s. By the mid-1960s acreage had dropped to under 8000 and by
1995, the number of farms producing tobacco was numbered in the teens. Among the largest producers were Bloomfield-based General Cigar (Griffin/Culbro) and the cooperative Windsor Shade
Tobacco Company with extensive holdings in Broomfield. Local historian Fred Hesketh will bring the story of Bloomfield's participation in that enterprise alive and up to date.
Please register for this program by calling Prosser Library at 243-9721 or in peron at the Reference Desk.
Very, very few of the hundreds of tobacco sheds once dotting the Bloomfield landscape are still standing.
Bloomfield fields were ready for spring planting every April.
