Exhibit: How tobacco ignited "Pipe Dreams" in Louisiana

 

(AP) ... From August 1717 to January 1731, Scottish economist John Law ran a French trade monopoly in Louisiana, which was first claimed for France in 1682. The colony grew from hundreds of residents to more than 4,000.
The tobacco enterprise ended when an Army captain's land grab triggered a massacre by Natchez Indians, who burned the plantations, according to exhibit curator Erin M. Greenwald. Continued