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The Lorilllard Mansion, Bronx Park, N Y.

Lorillard Mansion and Snuff Mill

The Lorilllard Mansion, Bronx Park, N Y.

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Lorillard Mansion, not dated.

In 1760 Pierre Abraham Lorillard established a tobacco company in New York City. Pierre was killed during the Revolutionary War, but his sons took over the firm and moved it to the Bronx in 1792. Peter Lorillard constructed a 45-room mansion, stone cottage, and stables. He also built the nearby Lorillard Snuff Mill in 1840 for tobacco production. The tobacco company decamped to New Jersey in the 1870s and the city purchased the estate in the 1880s. The mansion was destroyed by a fire in 1924 but the still standing mill is the oldest existing tobacco manufacturing building in the U.S.

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