Warehouse makeovers: New uses for tobacco buildings

(Daily Reflector) Pitt County's first commercial tobacco crop is believed to have sprouted under the watch of Leon Evans in 1886.
The industry bloomed as cotton prices declined and railroads arrived. Tobacco occupied 70 acres in 1889 and more than 12,900 acres one decade later, according to “The Architectural Heritage of Greenville, North Carolina.” Continued