(Cigar History Museum) The first
RED DOT cigar
made it’s on-counter debut around 1905, the brainchild and blend of the
Barnes-Smith Co., a small 20 man cigar factory recently-established in
Binghamton, New York. The so-called “Parlor City” was a prime location for a
factory, right in the middle of New York State’s top tobacco region. Blue collar
and anti-union, the city had rail and canals to move goods. What passed for
roads in 1905 were good enough to permit local deliveries to be made by auto,
the same way most cigar salesmen were beginning to get around. ... Barnes-Smith and
RED DOT
quickly found a strong market for what fans described as the cigar’s lightly
sweet ever-so-slightly minty blend.
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