Editing Brown County, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:WhiteBurleyTobacco.JPG|thumb|left|White [[Burley (tobacco)|burley tobacco]] monument dedicated on August 7, 1964, and located at the Ohio Tobacco Museum in [[Ripley, Ohio|Ripley]].]]
After the [[American Revolutionary War]], the federal government established the [[Northwest Territory]], a large area which encompassed the present county. In 1790, several counties were established, [[Hamilton County, Ohio|Hamilton]] among them. In 1797, a portion of Hamilton was partitioned off to create [[Adams County, Ohio|Adams County]], and in 1800 another portion was partitioned to create [[Clermont County, Ohio|Clermont]]. This lasted for two decades, during which the area north of the [[Ohio River]] attracted settlers.

Among the early settlers was [[Jesse Root Grant]] (father of [[Ulysses S. Grant|future US President Grant]]), who built a home and set up a tannery in the future Georgetown area, where young Hiram Ulysses (later changed to Ulysses S.) spent his youth.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TPNRCwAAQBAJ White, Rodald C., 2016 ''A life of Ulysses S. Grant''], p. 11</ref>

On March 1, 1818, portions of Adams and Clermont counties were partitioned off to create Brown County, with Georgetown as its seat. The boundaries of the county were altered in 1874, when a portion was moved to [[Highland County, Ohio|Highland County]]; they have remained intact since then.<ref name=History/>

Brown County was said to be the place of origin of the [[Burley tobacco|White Burley]] type of [[tobacco]], grown in 1864 by George Webb and Joseph Fore on the farm of Captain Frederick Kautz near Higginsport, with seed from [[Bracken County, Kentucky]]. He noticed it yielded a different type of light leaf shaded from white to yellow, and cured differently. By 1866, he harvested 20,000 pounds of Burley tobacco and sold it in 1867 at the St. Louis Fair for $58 per hundred pounds. By 1883, the principal market for this tobacco was Cincinnati, but it was grown throughout central Kentucky and Middle Tennessee.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JZBMAAAAMAAJ J.M. Stoddart, ''Encyclopædia Britannica. American Supplement'' (Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, and Companion to the Encyclopædia Britannica. (9th ed.) and to All Other Encyclopaedias, Volume 1), 1883, p. 123, accessed 5 February 2011]</ref> Later the type became referred to as burley tobacco, and it was air-cured.
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