Editing Creedmoor, North Carolina (section)

===Impact of tobacco===
[[Cultivation of tobacco|Tobacco]] was extremely important in the early history of the town. Four tobacco warehouses were built in the town in the early 1900s. Tobacco was a [[cash crop]] in Creedmoor, and was shipped by railroad to nearby Oxford's Tobacco Research Facility and Durham's thriving smoking tobacco industry, with firms including [[W. T. Blackwell and Company]], [[American Tobacco Company]], and [[Liggett Group|Liggett & Myers]]. At one time Creedmoor was a larger tobacco market than Durham. Area farmers did not limit themselves to tobacco only, but also grew [[cotton]], a profitable crop.