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From: "craig o'donnell" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Bye to Sho
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:30:44 -0400
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>I think that the soil may have been worn out from 200
>years of tobacco farming. I remember reading
>somewhere that the yield per acre declined abruptly
>toward the end of the 18th Century.
>
>Phil Turner


Many places on the Eastern Shore had switched away from tobacco by ca
1700-1720 because the soil wasn't really suited. the northern end of
Delmarva seems to have switched over first.
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