People Shaping the Land

Between 1760 and 1775, a small middle-class farm family in Maryland lived within a world shaped by farming, labor, and tobacco cultivation. Their daily lives included the work of people on the farm, including slaves, and centered on buildings, animals, and plants like those used in that period. Farmers produced not only food but also goods for many other purposes. For 300 years, tobacco was Maryland’s most important crop, and its cultivation structured everyday life in Maryland, especially during the colonial period.

Fort Hunt, Virginia · United States