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Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, also known as "Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco", was a brand of loose-leaf tobacco manufactured by W. T. Blackwell and Company in Durham, North Carolina, that originated around the 1850s and remained in production until August 15, 1988.
It was best known as the original producer of Bull Durham Tobacco, the first nationally marketed brand of tobacco products in the United States. The Blackwell tobacco factory in Durham, built in 1874, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Jan 1, 2006 · The 1988 blockbuster film Bull Durham, starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins, brought national attention to both the famous tobacco moniker and the Durham Bulls, Durham's popular minor league baseball team.
Feb 27, 2023 · After the Civil War, the Durham shorthorn bull became the logo for Bull Durham Tobacco (later W.T. Blackwell & Co.), as well as the basis for an international advertising campaign and, eventually, the enduring symbol of this Piedmont city.
It shouldn’t surprise, then, that Bull Durham, branded as “The Smoke of the Red, White and Blue,” sold all of its cigarette production to the War Department two years later to satisfy U.S. troops’ craving for tobacco “over there.”
Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, also known as "Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco", was a brand of loose-leaf tobacco manufactured by W. T. Blackwell and Company in Durham, North Carolina, that originated around the 1850s and remained in production until August 15, 1988.
The Durham Bulls is named after the Bull Durham tobacco-advertising icon, and as of 2012, the Bulls are the Class-AAA affiliate team of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The Durham Bulls, North Carolina’s premier minor league baseball team, played their first game in 1902 as the Durham Tobacconists.
Nov 28, 2012 · By the end of the century W. Duke, Sons & Company became the dominant tobacco company in Durham and the country, and Blackwell & Company and its Bull Durham brand eventually ended up as part of the Duke’s growing tobacco empire.
Nov 8, 1989 · The brand has been discontinued, and if there are any remaining sacks of Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco on Oklahoma store shelves, they're the last, say American Tobacco Co. officials.
Nov 16, 2017 · From training camps to Germany and back again, Bull Durham tobacco comforted American troops every step of the way and firmly rooted itself in the returning veteran community for decades to come. Want to learn a little more about the tobacco industry in North Carolina?
