There was an error in the my recent letter on the "tobacco barn" in Berne.
Heritage Days will be July 15, 16, and 17th. The Dutch Barn Tour will be the
morning of July 16 and will include three Dutch Barns built around 1800 by,
or at least for, German farmers. 


Harold Miller
Berne Historical Project www.Bernehistory.org
Berne Heritage Days 2005 July 15, 16, and 17


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> From: 	Harold Miller [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent:	Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:45 AM
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> A two hundred year old farm in the Town of Berne has a brick outbuilding
> with no windows. The owners refer to it as a tobacco barn. It has no
> windows. A similar sized brick building on a nearby farm was built as
> slave quarters. It has a window and a beehive oven in back. Would tobacco
> have been a crop grown in the hills of western Albany County in the late
> 18th Century? Would a tobacco barn have been built of brick? 
> 
> The farm with the "tobacco barn" will be open for a tour of three local
> Dutch Barns that is in the will be tour Saturday morning 9-12, June 16
> during Berne Heritage Days. 
> 
> Harold Miller
> Berne Historical Project www.Bernehistory.org
> Berne Heritage Days 2005 July 15, 16, and 17
> 
>