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Thu, 19 May 2005 11:45:22 -0600
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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

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