Editing Windsor, Connecticut (section)

===Tobacco farming===
{{main|Connecticut shade tobacco}}
[[Tobacco farming]] in Connecticut has a long history. When the first settlers came to the valley in the 1630s, tobacco was already being grown by the native population. By 1700 it was being exported via the [[Connecticut River]] to [[Europe]]an ports. The use of Connecticut tobacco as a [[cigar]] wrapper leaf began in the 1820s.<ref name="cigaraficionado.com">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,854,00.html |title=Wrapped Up |magazine=Cigar Aficionado |issue=Winter 1992 |date=December 1, 1992 |access-date=October 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030528213453/http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,854,00.html |archive-date=May 28, 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Area farmers grew tobacco for the two outside layers of cigars, the binder and the wrapper. Approximately {{convert|34,000|acre|km2}} of land in Connecticut is covered by [[soil type|Windsor Soil]], named after the town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/soil-windsor.html |title=CT Soils – Windsor &#124; Connecticut NRCS |publisher=Ct.nrcs.usda.gov |access-date=October 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030829094025/http://www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/soil-windsor.html |archive-date=August 29, 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The movie [[Parrish (film)|''Parrish'']], starring Troy Donahue and Karl Malden, was set and filmed in the tobacco farms of Windsor. The film was released in 1961.

The [[Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum]],<ref name="tobaccohistsoc.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.tobaccohistsoc.org/index.htm |title=Connecticut Valley Tobacco Historical Society |publisher=Tobaccohistsoc.org |access-date=October 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502145857/http://www.tobaccohistsoc.org/index.htm |archive-date=May 2, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> containing authentic farming implements and tools, can be found at [[Northwest Park (Windsor)|Northwest Park]] in Windsor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northwestpark.org/about_us.htm |title=Friends of Northwest Park |publisher=Northwestpark.org |access-date=October 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616123739/http://northwestpark.org/about_us.htm |archive-date=June 16, 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref>