Record #:

23486

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer provides a description of Greenville's 61st market year in the selling of tobacco in 1951, where the bidding for a tobacco pile started at 39 cents. There were 17 tobacco warehouses in Greenville, where farmers offered their crop to the highest bidder. The life of a tobacco farmer was a gamble; one that the farmer hoped would pay off at the market.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Aug 21-Sep 3 2002, p8

Subject(s):

Tobacco--Greenville