Old Tobacco Barn

These relics are very common in Eastern NC.  They are called tobacco barns because tobacco farmers used them to cure tobacco overnight with heat (using a dangerous heater and previously an open flame).  I "worked in tobacco" a couple of teenage summers which involved getting the tobacco from the fields to the barns, tied on sticks, and into the barn for curing.  By the time we returned the following morning at about 7 am the farmer and his sons had already removed the barn of cured tobacco so we could fill more barns that day.  I was hot, dirty work because freshly cropped tobacco has a very sticky black gum on it that must be peeled off your hands after a day of work.