Snuff, or ground tobacco came about around 1870 with Garrett's. A myriad of brands have since come and gone. Tops, Rooster,Railroad Mills, Square Snuff, Red Seal, Stokers and many more.
This old tobacco barn shows the tobacco hung from the rafters ready for curing. I always loved the smell of the curing tobacco in the barns, and the pipe smoking from the old men gathered about under the shade trees.
The old barn was built to withstand anything the ages could throw at it, though a mere child could pull the old wooden latch and enter the dark crib.
The fall was the time my friend Robert Jones and I would visit the hills of North Georgia and North Carolina to photograph the fall colors. This old barn with the stacked corn was photographed around Cherokee, North Carolina. The barns below were photographed in North Georgia, location long forgotten, the barns perhaps long gone.
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