The gift shop and an exhibit area that has tobacco memorabilia, artifacts, and more than 100 years of tobacco-related advertising on display are still open. Only one hour Northwest of Myrtle Beach. Mullins Railroad Depot Money difficulties have delayed plans for a tobacco museum and open air market here. At the corner of 8th Ave. A permanent collection that includes fine art prints, tobacconists' figures, cigar maker's bench, meerschaum pipes, snuff boxes, advertising art, and tobacco-related antiques and collectibles from around the world.
Services are free and available to anyone by appointment.
Facilities include a gift shop. St. Mary's City, MD Historic St. Mary's City Artifacts from tobacco plantation. This preservation district, named for Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, a Cuban who established the first cigar factory here in 1886, was once the center of the US cigar industry, and at its peak was home to 20,000 cigar workers. Tours begin at the information booth on the first floor of Ybor Square, at 13th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Tampa. Tampa Rico Cigar Co. has cigar-making demonstrations.