Yes, you read that correctly. Nightcrawlers. Worms. Big brown, squishy worms. The ones that come out in the rain and at night when it's cooler. So what do worms have to do with American history?

Native tribes shared tobacco pipes with the visitors and gave them the dried leaves and seeds to take home with them. In 1612, John Rolfe planted the first commercial tobacco crop in Virginia ...

The personalized clay pipes, which archaeologists ... But in 1614 John Rolfe, the Englishman who married Pocahontas, sent the first successful tobacco harvest to England, and the golden weed ...

Philip Morris is the Virginia name most closely associated with tobacco in the 21st century. That's because of John Rolfe's actions in the 17th. Rolfe found what no other colonist had: A ...

The site where legendary Native American heroine Pocahontas married tobacco planter John Rolfe in 1614 has been discovered by a prominent U.S. archaeologist. William Kelso says the remains of the ...

On August 20, 1619, a large ship arrived off the coast of present-day Hampton, Virginia, carrying what English colonist John ... earlier Rolfe began experimenting with growing tobacco commercially ...