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Preferred Citation

Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association Contract Book, 1923-1925. Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

This collection came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of records from Chesterfield County.

This collection is located at the State Records Center. Contact Archives Research Services for access information, directions, and hours.

Historical Information

Chesterfield County was named for Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and diplomat, and was formed from Henrico County in 1749.

The Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association was a non-profit association of tobacco farmers organized in North Carolina in 1921, and administered by a board of twenty-five directors in Raleigh. It was organized "for the purpose of promoting, fostering, and encouraging the business of marketing tobacco cooperatively: for reducing speculation; for stabilizing the local tobacco markets; for cooperatively and collectively handling the problems of tobacco growers, and for other pertinent purposes."

Scope and Content

Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association Contract Book, 1923-1925. The contract book contains the names of farmers in Chesterfield County, Va., who signed contracts to market their tobacco cooperatively through the association. The contracts contain the farmer's address (name of community), the date of the contract, the number of pounds and type of tobacco (dark or bright) pledged, and the amount of acreage in production. Index included. The book also contains a printed agreement with the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1924, outline terms of marketing agreements with farmers; and three signed affidavit of M.O. Wilson, Secretary of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, 1924.

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Chesterfield County (Va.)--Circuit Court.
• Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association (Chesterfield County, Va.)

Subjects:

• Tobacco farmers--Virginia--Chesterfield County.
• Tobacco industry--Virginia--Societies, etc.
• Tobacco--Cooperative marketing--Virginia--Societies, etc.

Geographical Names:

• Chesterfield County (Va.)--History--20th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Affidavits--Virginia--Chesterfield County.
• Contracts--Virginia--Chesterfield County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Chesterfield County.
• Organization records--Virginia--Chesterfield County.

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