Chapter 2: Clover
Information on the history of Virginia tobacco production came from the Virginia Historical So-
ciety, the Halifax County website, archival documents and news articles at the South Boston
Library, and several books, including Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry, from Seed to
Smoke, by Tara Parker Pope, an overview of tobacco history for the general public.
Several books helped me reconstruct the era and places in which Henrietta lived, includ-
ing Country Folks: The Way We Were Back Then in Halifax County, Virginia, by Henry Pre-
ston Young, Jr; History of Halifax, by Pocahontas Wight Edmunds; Turner Station, by Jerome
Watson; Wives of Steel, by Karen Olson; and Making Steel, by Mark Reutter. The history of
Turner Station is also chronicled in news articles and documents housed at the Dundalk Pata-
psco Neck Historical Society and the North Point Library in Dundalk, Maryland.