(Note: The following is part of a series of articles looking at the history and evolution of agriculture in Georgia and Bulloch County.) By 1928, the first two tobacco warehouses had opened in Statesboro. They were the Holt-Cobb facility and the Farmer’s facility. Buyers came from the Imperial Export, R.J. Reynolds, Liggett and Meyers, J.P. Taylor, Chino-American and the P. Lorillard Companies.