17th-18th-century (Temporal Keyword)
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Tobacco Houses of the Early Colonial Chesapeake (2015)
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Tobacco houses and barns – specialized agricultural buildings for curing and storing tobacco -- were common features upon the Chesapeake region’s landscape throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each plantation or farm had at least one, and depending on its size, potentially more than one. Today, colonial-era tobacco houses are all but extinct in the region, leaving the archaeological record as a principal source on these one-time ubiquitous structures. Drawing upon excavation...