Boone County was impacted by infamous Night Riders, involving tobacco monopoly

 

(nkytribune.com) In 1904, a group of Western Kentucky and Tennessee Black Patch tobacco farmers formed an alliance in response to the underpricing of tobacco crops by the American Tobacco Company, the monopoly owned by James B. Duke.
The group of farmers, was called the “Dark Tobacco District Planters’ Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee” or “PPA.” The PPA aimed to withhold tobacco crops from the monopoly as a united group, to exert pressure and force a price increase. Continued