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Flue-Cured Tobacco Barn
Step one to building my flue-cured tobacco barn was to cast a
base, then carve field stones into the plaster while it was still somewhat
soft. The dimensions are 16’ wide
by 18’ long.
Flue-Cured Tobacco Barn, Archdale, NC
Working on the pack house kit got me thinking that every Southern railroad needs to have tobacco barns depicted. Even today, with the demise of the small farmer, these barns still stand as reminders to North Carolina's tobacco history.
In Archdale, NC, this is one of four flue-cured tobacco barns that dotted this 20+/- acre farm—now with only two still standing. It was built around 1930, and was modified from wood-fired to oil probably sometime in the 1940s. It also had an addition built to accommodate storage of the tobacco. According to the farmer, it would hold about 300 sticks of tobacco.
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