George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. In fact refusing to grow hemp in America during the 17th and 18th centuries was against the law! Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper.
Month: February 2013
When Hemp was King
A trip down memory lane for a Grand Daughter of a man who worked for The Fairwater Hemp Company in 1916! So, not such a new idea after all .. 🙂 When hemp was king, my great-grandfather was a farmer. And so was his brother. Together they worked for Towne Miller’s Fairwater Hemp Company,…
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