Sunday, November 25, 2012

Mystery Ruins

Andy | Sunday, November 25, 2012 | Best Blogger Tips

Driving along a dead end rural road I came across these ruins. I have no info on who, what or when about these structures. Update: I have found out that theses are tobacco huts

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  1. They remind me of those old motels we used to stay in as a kid. These have been around for awhile.

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  2. Strange. Perhaps you can find out.

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  3. These are wonderful. We actually have a whole row of these going into the more rural part of our county. I have several shots of them. I always thought they were small 'homes' for the migrant workers when the area was a working farm. I don't really know though.

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  4. REminds me of shanties here in the south. Isn't it amazing they are still standing.
    V

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  5. Looks like a little community; oh, the stories they could tell!!

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  6. Cool shot! I wonder what they were used for?

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  7. Like the shot but have no idea what they could have been!

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  8. Interesting. Perhaps they were housing for migrant laborers during harvest times?

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  9. If only they could talk...it also reminds me of places I've seen in very rural areas here.

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  10. How eerie to see them all in the same condition and of the same era. Was it the plague of some sort which drove the inhabitants away or is it a movie set for a horror film. Let us know if you find out!

    Bises,
    Genie

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    1. I was thinking along the lines of a commune. There was no one around that could have asked.

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  11. I have to wonder whether the original owner leased parts of his land to people and that's where they lived?
    That one short structure on the left must be a chicken coop.

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  12. These are old tobacco huts Andy. My hubby said.


    They hung the tobacco leaves in them. Many years ago.

    Then cost of money they had to abanded them and flee.

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    1. Yes... it makes sense. I knew the buildings looked familiar but still could not place them.

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  13. Andy, I was thinking tobacco sheds as well, but I don't think there is enough air circulation for tobacco. These might well be migrant farm worker's housing left over from an era when families of migrant workers came to do hand labor on crops. Even when new, this was minimal housing.

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