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The tobacco barn, a type of functionally classified barn found in the USA, was once an essential ingredient in the process of air-curing tobacco. In the 21st century they are fast disappearing from the landscape in places where they were once ubiquitous. [ 1 ]
The Bedford Commercial Historic District encompasses most of the central business district of Bedford, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [ 1 ] The historic district includes 50 properties that were part of a 1989 survey of the area.
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Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking. The history of commercial tobacco production in the United States dates back to the 17th century when the first commercial crop was planted. The industry originated in the production of tobacco for British pipes and snuff. See Tobacco in the American colonies.
Sasscer Tobacco Barn; R. K. Schnader & Sons Tobacco Warehouse; Walter Schnader Tobacco Warehouse; Elijah Sherman Farm; L. G. Sherman Tobacco Warehouse; Smith Tobacco Barn; Smith Warehouse; W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building; South Main Street Historic District (Kernersville, North Carolina) John W. Stovall Farm ...
The American Tobacco Historic District is a historic tobacco factory complex and national historic district located in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings and three contributing structures built by the American Tobacco Company and its predecessors and successors from 1874 to the 1950s.
In 1911 the American Tobacco Company was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and was split into competing companies American Tobacco, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard, and others. [5] Lorillard ended up buying the warehouse complex in Madison, and its name was long painted across the end of the 1901 building. [4]
The William Oakland Round Barn is an historic building located near Blairsburg in rural Hamilton County, Iowa, United States. The true round barn measures 50 feet (15 m) in diameter. [ 2 ] It is constructed of clay tiles and features a conical roof, aerator, a small dormer on the west side and a larger one on the east side as well as a 16 feet ...