Sir Walter Raleigh was buried with a pipe and tobacco. His coffin was also "lined throughout with the wood of my old Havana cigar-boxes."
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John Rolfe is the colonial explorer who gained fame and wealth through his experiments with tobacco. He is credited with introducing a new strain of tobacco that became highly profitable in the colony of Virginia during the early 17th century. His success with tobacco cultivation helped establish the economic viability of the English colonies in North America.
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Dirk Hartog (1580 - 1621) was a 17th century Dutch sailor and explorer.
Tobacco was the "cash crop" of the Virginia Colony during the 17th century.
French explorer Samuel de Champlain encountered the Ojibwe tribe during his travels in the early 17th century.
The popularization of snuff, and later pipes, began in 16th Century Europe. Tobacco is native to North and South America, and became a medicine or recreational drug only after it was discovered in the New World, apparently in Cuba on the first or second voyage of Columbus. As a valuable crop, it was the first grown for export in the American colonies during their settlement in the 17th century.
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Dirk Hartog was a Dutch sailor and explorer during the 17th century. He was born and died in Amsterdam, which is in the Netherlands.