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Reynolds Archives
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<p>Reynolds Archives contains archival items from both Reynolds Homestead and Reynolda House Museum of American Art.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.reynoldshomestead.vt.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reynolds Homestead<img src="https://img.icons8.com/material/24/000000/external-link--v1.png" alt="" width="15" height="15" /></a> was built in 1843 as the Rock Spring Plantation in Critz, Virginia, by Hardin Reynolds, a successful farmer, merchant, banker, and tobacco manufacturer. Hardin and Nancy Cox Reynolds’s son, Richard Joshua (R.J.), founded the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and their grandson, Richard Samuel, Sr., founded Reynolds Metals. The Reynolds Homestead has been designated a State and National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Registry of American Homes.</p>
<p>Richard Joshua “R.J.” Reynolds (1850-1918), founder of the Reynolds Tobacco Company, married Katharine Smith in 1905. Shortly afterwards, the couple constructed the <a href="https://www.reynoldahouse.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reynolda House<img src="https://img.icons8.com/material/24/000000/external-link--v1.png" alt="" width="15" height="15" /></a> on a plot of 1,000 acres of purchased land, moving from Critz, Virginia to Winston-Salem, North Carolina upon its completion in 1917. Starting construction in 1912, Katharine Smith Reynolds contracted and assisted Charles Barton Keene, a Philadelphia-based architect in designing the house and the surrounding farm buildings. Landscaping of the area, including gardens, farms, and creation of a 16-acre artificial lake was initially drafted by New York landscape designers Buckenham & Miller and completed by Philadelphian landscape architect Thomas W. Sears, who replaced them. Today, the Reynolda House is a museum for American art ranging from the colonial period to the present day.</p>
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<a href="https://www.reynoldshomestead.vt.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reynolds Homestead official site<img src="https://img.icons8.com/material/24/000000/external-link--v1.png" alt="" width="15" height="15" /></a>
<a href="http://reynoldahouse.libraryhost.com/repositories/2?id=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reynolda House Finding Aid<img src="https://img.icons8.com/material/24/000000/external-link--v1.png" alt="" width="15" height="15" /></a>
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Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850-1918)
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Born on Rock Spring Plantation, R.J. Reynolds grew up working in his father's tobacco manufacturing business before moving to Winston-Salem, NC to begin his own company in 1874. This company, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, grew to be a major producer of chewing tobacco and cigarettes, including Camel cigarettes, which still exist today. After his death, the company grew to hold stakes in many different industries, including food and aluminum. Today, R.J. Reynolds' company survives as Reynolds American, Inc., a large corporation that owns many sub companies that specialize in tobacco production and research.