A look at three key fights from the weekend’s regional, developmental and international scene. This edition previews Fight Nights, RFA 33 and Venator FC 2.
Tobacco plays a big role in the townâs history.
There were once fields and fields of tobacco in Bloomfield and in neighboring towns.
Tobacco started in the late 1800s, but was booming in the 1920s, sitting on thousands of acres.
Bloomfield Town Councilor Joe Merritt moved to town in 1944. In fact, his backyard was once tobacco fields.
âOur house there was surrounded by tobacco fields and in the backyard, there was a tobacco shed, so we got to watch the whole exercise. It was a small tobacco company that rented the land from my father,â Merritt said.
Her says people would come from all over for the work.