This tobacco barn is located near Rhine. It’s wrapped in false brick siding, as was common, and the shed roof has collapsed (also common). I’ve passed this place many times before and somehow never noticed the barn. I’ll always turn around for a tobacco barn, and as I’ve detailed before, they have gotten rarer with each passing year. They really are important landmarks as they represent a vanished sector of the economy in Georgia from at least the 1930s until the 1970s.
We still have one on our family’s farm in Treutlen County.
Sammy Fuller had one behind his house on Forest Glen Road in Wilcox County. His original home was a replica of the big white house further down toward the boils. They were working in the field when the tobacco barn caught fire and burned down the house. Sammy rebuilt with the small home that is probably no longer there.
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