Article 5QN3Z Connecticut Tobacco Field Where Martin Luther King Jr. Worked Will Be Named a Historical Site

Connecticut Tobacco Field Where Martin Luther King Jr. Worked Will Be Named a Historical Site

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Rachel Pilgrim
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If you live or drove through Simsbury, Conn., you may have passed the 288-acre former tobacco farm known to locals as Meadowood." That sprawling area will now be preserved for future generations because it's where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. toiled the fields as a college student.

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