ISSUE 71, PEANUTS, Part 3: The Virginia Peanut Begins
The Virginia Peanut Begins
Outside of Waverly Virginia stands an historical marker honoring Dr. Matthew Harris, the first to grow peanuts in Virginia in 1842. One suspects a number of slaves grew it before that date just as they did in North and South Carolina and Georgia. More remarkable was the claim that he “grew the first commercial crop of Peanuts …