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Bright Leaf Tobacco turns to gold: American Tobacco

The humble beginning of a Tobacco Empire. Washington Duke, a Prisoner Of War during the Civil War, was released by the Union Army and returned to his ransacked tobacco farm near Durham Station. He picked up the pieces and began a business selling smoking tobacco, a type of flue-cured called Bright Leaf, that was produced by the farmers in this area. Sons Benjamin and James Buchanan "Buck" took over the business and created the American Tobacco Company, a virtual monopoly of cigarette production. Their endowment of Trinity College created Duke University.