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The restored James Mill Scottish Factor Store or "Old Tobacco Warehouse" is used as the Urbanna Town Visitor Center. For years, it was thought to have been used to store hogsheads of tobacco. In 1958, The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities sponsored a study of the building. Historian Wesley Newton Laing's research revealed that the structure was not a warehouse but, rather, a Scottish Colonial merchant factor store, where tobacco could be traded for finished goods from Europe.
(Courtesy of Emily Chowning. Excerpt from "Images of America Urbanna" by Larry S. Chowning)
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