Windy Acre Tobacco Farm Carries on a Suffield Tradition

(Patch) Long a staple of the farming community here, Suffield can trace some of roots through the broad-leaf tobacco that grows in so many of its fields.
In 1860, more than 290 of the 316 working farms in town were growing tobacco, according to the Suffield town Web site. The first cigar factory in the United States was located in Suffield and opened in 1810. Tobacco was used as legal tender as early as 1727. Continued