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Tomatoes are native of tropical America.
They returned to the United States in 1781. Tomatoes were commonly sold in New Orleans by 1812, and tomato seeds were offered in a seed catalog in the United States in 1817. By 1835 tomatoes were generally cultivated throughout the country. Plaquemines Parish reports the largest acreage of creole tomatoes. It was introduced in 1969 by the LSU Agricultural Experiment Station.