Seriously? Tobacco in Wisconsin? I'm surprised. I thought it was a plant that thrived in hot climates.
I guess it is so.
Though I don't think Tobacco was anywhere near as valuable as cotton, nor do I think it required as many people to cultivate it as did cotton.
I hate the stuff. I wish it never caught on. I can't stand cigarette smoke.
Hemp production in Wisconsin was HUGE during WWII. They grew it to make rope for the military. The ‘Hemp Mills’ used German POWs and Japanese-Americans as labor.
Not so cool from the same state that helped abolish slavery!
Anyhow: https://www.newheadnews.com/hemp/WiscHempMills.html
I find ‘hemp’ from time to time on my farm, but whether it’s still from WWII or from the previous Hippies that lived here, I do not know, LOL!