WW:

You keep referring to tobacco sled. I remember tobacco sheds, the walls of which were made of slats set vertically, with an couple of inch gap between each slat. This was to allow the air to flow through the shed while the tobacco was curing.

And I remember that people used to put sacking over the walls, and I always assumed it was to keep out insects. But what's a tobacco sled?

When I lived in Northern Virginia, there was a road called Rolling Road, apparently because the hogsheads of cured tobacco were rolled down the road to the port where they were loaded on ships bound for England. There was apparently a yoke that fitted into holes in the center of each end of the barrels so they could be drawn by horses.

Is there a rolling road in your part of Virginia?

TEd


TEd