TOBACCO FARM LIFE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA

SOUTH HILL, VA

Portrait in Brick (Lamont Cranston--The Shadow Knows) (Indulging in Nostalgia) (M) This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. Seeing my shadow on a brick wall on my back porch prompted this playful photo. I've been told it also resembles the outline of a werewolf! The Shadow appeared on the radio July 31, 1930 as part of the Detective Story Hour to develop sales for the monthly magazine of the same name. Popularity followed as a new magazine The Shadow Magazine debuted in April 1931. A new radio show came into being in 1937 featuring Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston aka "The Shadow". Radio programming lasted at least through 1954. The Shadow appeared in pulp fiction, comic strips, radio, movies, and television. The classic line "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" has become part of the American idiom. I vividly recall hearing shows on radio when I was a young kid. For the curious--many radio episodes, short films, publications found in a search at Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/search?query=subject:" rel="noreferrer nofollow">archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22The+Shadow%22</a> A blues band named The Lamont Cranston Band began its musical life in 1969. The influence of The Shadow has been significant in American culture. See: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>
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The Tobacco Farm Life Museum of Virginia in South Hill, VA is dedicated to educating the public about the state’s rich agricultural history. Established in 1996, the museum consists of two distinct areas, the Tobacco Farm Life Exhibit and the Tobacco Curing Barn. The Tobacco Farm Life Exhibit showcases the history and culture of tobacco farming in Virginia, from the early 1900s through today. Visitors can explore the tobacco barn, a re-created farmhouse, and a tobacco curing barn, all of which are authentic to the period.

The Tobacco Curing Barn is a reconstructed building that demonstrates the process of curing tobacco. It contains a variety of artifacts, including farming tools, photographs, and equipment. Visitors can watch a video that details the entire process of curing tobacco and learn about the history of the crop in Virginia. The museum also offers educational programs, such as lectures and workshops, throughout the year.

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum of Virginia offers an up-close look at the history of tobacco farming in Virginia. It provides an invaluable opportunity for visitors to gain a better understanding of the past and the impact that tobacco farming has had on the state’s history and culture.

TOBACCO FARM LIFE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA is a Uncategorized or General Museum in SOUTH HILL VA. US MID #8405100018

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

Portrait in Brick (Lamont Cranston--The Shadow Knows) (Indulging in Nostalgia) (M) This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. Seeing my shadow on a brick wall on my back porch prompted this playful photo. I've been told it also resembles the outline of a werewolf! The Shadow appeared on the radio July 31, 1930 as part of the Detective Story Hour to develop sales for the monthly magazine of the same name. Popularity followed as a new magazine The Shadow Magazine debuted in April 1931. A new radio show came into being in 1937 featuring Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston aka "The Shadow". Radio programming lasted at least through 1954. The Shadow appeared in pulp fiction, comic strips, radio, movies, and television. The classic line "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" has become part of the American idiom. I vividly recall hearing shows on radio when I was a young kid. For the curious--many radio episodes, short films, publications found in a search at Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/search?query=subject:" rel="noreferrer nofollow">archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22The+Shadow%22</a> A blues band named The Lamont Cranston Band began its musical life in 1969. The influence of The Shadow has been significant in American culture. See: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>
Duck Soup This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. A mallard duck soup tureen, a small vessel holding only around 3 cups of soup. The title is derived from the 1933 Marx Brothers movie. It is not especially old, probably mid-20th century. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Ice Everywhere This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. [There are 18 photos in this series] Our second ice storm this week (in February 2021) is now over. Despite the terror freezing rain holds, there is amazing beauty in the created ice glaze. The ice storm lasted about 34 hours with a welcome 7 hour break. It took less than 2 hours for all of it to melt. Ice on puddles in my yard, on my car, on the trees, on the street. All scenes are in Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. This is my Nissan, which pops up in numerous photos from Connecticut to Texas <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Shrine, MacCallum More Gardens [The MacCallum More Museum and Gardens album contains 32 photos] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. This is a religious shrine consisting of a roofed stone column, closed in, with a religious statue; here the statue is probably the Virgin Mary. They often marked a road to a holy site and commonly used by travelers for prayer. This was undoubtedly a Roman Catholic shrine that found its way to MacCallum More Gardens in Chase City, Virginia (Mecklenburg County). "A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain. They have been a feature of many cultures, including Chinese folk religious communities, Catholic and Orthodox Europe and some Asian regions." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayside_shrine" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayside_shrine</a> The museum and gardens are part of the MacCallum More and Hudgins House Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places #09001051. The following information is quoted from the NRHP nomination form prepared by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources ((DHR # 186-5020) “MacCallum More is a six-acre property that includes the house, a guest cottage, a museum, and extensive gardens. The gardens were begun in 1929 by Lucy Morton Hudgins and expanded by her son, Commander William Henry Hudgins, in the 1940s, 1960s, and 1970s. Charles F. Gillette, a prominent Virginia landscape architect consulted on the design of the gardens. The gardens are enclosed by walls constructed of stones from the chimneys and foundations of numerous eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings that once stood in the surrounding countryside. There are numerous statues, structures, fountains, and artifacts, imported from Europe and the Far East by Commander Hudgins, in the gardens and adorning the stone walls. The museum and the gardens are open to the public, and MacCallum More can be used for meetings and small private parties. The guest cottage now serves as the gift shop and office for the museum and garden.” Their website is <a href="http://www.mmmg.org/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.mmmg.org/</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>
Boxwood and Snow This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. At my home in Chase City, Virginia <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
Selfie of an Old Man (at 81) This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. I don't know the best way to make cell phone photographs. A family moment, anticipating the arrival of a grandson in late September and a granddaughter in late November. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>
Misty Green This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. On the back roads of Mecklenburg County, Virginia in a slight rain and mist, a soft greenness over everything. My first time with camera in hand since May 2021. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
Most of the Town of Union Level This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. [12 photos in an ongoing series] On a country road in Mecklenburg County, Virginia is a line of old stores constituting the "ghost town" of Union Level. Pictured is about 3/4 of the village. The settlement goes back to the early 1800s but I don't think anything remains from that time. The railroad established a line through here in the late 19th century, but then the rail line left. I've been told it was still a commercial location up to the 1950s and abandoned sometime after. I know nothing of any of the buildings or what the future of Union Level might be. A brief account: <a href="https://www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/</a> Two videos on YouTube (1) Abandoned Virginia: Ghost Town in Union Level <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I</a> (2) Union Level, Virginia, a 29 1/2 minute video on the community <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
Return to Nature This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. [12 photos in an ongoing series] On a country road in Mecklenburg County, Virginia is a line of old stores constituting the "ghost town" of Union Level. The settlement goes back to the early 1800s but I don't think anything remains of that time. The railroad established a line through here in the late 19th century, but then the rail line left. I've been told it was still a commercial location up to the 1950s and abandoned sometime after. I know nothing of any of the buildings or what the future of this location might be. A brief account: <a href="https://www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/</a> Two videos on YouTube (1) Abandoned Virginia: Ghost Town in Union Level <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I</a> (2) Union Level, Virginia, a 29 1/2 minute video on the community <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
The Gate This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. The front gate to the 1912 (or 1905) Wilkerson House in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Check out the album on this house at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/universalpops/albums/72157629509112317">www.flickr.com/photos/universalpops/albums/72157629509112317</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
Gas for 36.9 Cents a Gallon This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. On a country road in Mecklenburg County, Virginia is a line of old stores of the "ghost town" of Union Level. This is the backside of an old gas pump at the edge of "town"; the front has no price indicated. A brief account: <a href="https://www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/</a> Two videos on YouTube (1) Abandoned Virginia: Ghost Town in Union Level <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I</a> (2) Union Level, Virginia, a 29 1/2 minute video on the community <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
Gas Pump in Living Color This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work. On a country road in Mecklenburg County, Virginia is a line of old stores of the "ghost town" of Union Level. This is the remaining gas pump at the service station at the edge of "town". I prefer this shot in color to the b&w. Some of the character of rust and vegetation gets lost in the b&w version. The other side of the pump shows gas at 36.9 cents/gallon A brief account: <a href="https://www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.virginia.org/listing/union-level-ghost-town/4358/</a> Two videos on YouTube (1) Abandoned Virginia: Ghost Town in Union Level <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6g6jVHj_I</a> (2) Union Level, Virginia, a 29 1/2 minute video on the community <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"></a>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.

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306 W MAIN ST
SOUTH HILL
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MID # 8405100018
Name TOBACCO FARM LIFE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA
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Classification Uncategorized or General Museums, , Southeastern
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LAT/LONG 36.729998, -78.147619
CODES FIPS State Code: 51
FIPS County Code: 117
US Census Tract: 930200
US Census Block: 2034