A likely site for the centre is an old tobacco warehouse.

"Usually," he says in a voice that's surprisingly soft coming from a man the size of a tobacco warehouse.

It is named for the large number of tobacco warehouses that were once located there.

The tobacco warehouse had been constructed by January, 1804, on the only one acre lot in town.

Four tobacco warehouses were built in the town in the early 1900s.

After 1767 it was used as a tobacco warehouse and then as a theater.

Some county governments built tobacco warehouses to provide a common service for their most important export crop.

Originally, the hotel site was built in the 1880s as a tobacco warehouse and was used that way until 1945.

After the battle it was used as barracks, a tenement and tobacco warehouse.

The tobacco warehouses visible from the Duke campus are all brick.