ISP Spotlight - North Florida Research & Education Center
The North Florida Research & Education Center located near Quincy Florida, was established through a Legislative Act in May 1921 and began operating in 1923 as a Tobacco Experiment Station. Originally housed on a 23-acre tract of land the original center consisted of a tobacco shade, tobacco barn and a two-story brick laboratory and office building. In 1922, the first scientist was hired, a plant pathologist specializing in Black Shank, a disease that had become a serious threat to the tobacco growers of the age.