This film photograph, from 2002, is an earlier view of the barn near Spring Hill Primitive Baptist Church. It was the first tobacco barn I was able to document over a long period of time.

Nancy Harper Redman writes: “Hoke Deberry owned this property, which includes the spring from which the church gets its name…My Dad (the late Marcus F. Roberts of Berrien County) was related to some of the Deberrys. He played in that spring and woods when he was a small boy.”

It collapsed by 2012.