If you’re familiar with Virginia ham or Virginia’s history, then you probably already know about Smithfield. Simply Smithfield: Ham, battlefields and more make perfect weekend getaway Skip to ...

Start your day with a hearty breakfast at the Cockeyed Rooster ... rich history with ham, Smithfield is home to the Porcine Parade -- a series of eight individually painted pig statues scattered ...

In the birthplace of the Genuine Smithfield Ham, the pig is part plaything ... and sometimes tries to push the egg-and-cheese breakfast sandwich as an alternative when people ask for more ...

Country ham isn’t just a Southern breakfast staple. It can also go high-end, served thinly sliced like an Italian prosciutto. Johnston County Hams in Smithfield sells the famously fatty ...

Homemade Glazed Easter Spiral Cut Ham with Carrots and Potatoes(Getty Images/iStockphoto/bhofack2) SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods is closing the last smokehouse that creates the genuine ...

The pork industry pioneer led a family that helped turn the Smithfield product into big business. P.D. Gwaltney Jr. can’t take credit for the first ham business in Smithfield. That usually goes ...

Luter and his son, Smithfield Foods, a Fortune 500 company, now has 46,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $13 billion. Yet the town is far more than a ham hamlet, it's also a historic town ...

SMITHFIELD, Va- 114 years ago, on July 9, 1902, P.D Gwaltney Jr., the man who took the Isle of Wight Gwaltney ham business to Smithfield Ham fame, took this legendary slab of salted meat as his pet.

Smithfield Foods is closing the last smokehouse that creates the genuine Smithfield ham — the signature product of a Virginia town of 8,300 people. The ham has been an area staple since the ...

(AP) — Smithfield Foods is closing the last smokehouse that creates the genuine Smithfield ham — the signature product of a Virginia town of 8,300 people. The ham has been an area staple since ...