Tobacco Warehouse

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Buyers inspect tobacco leaves during an auction held in a Moultrie warehouse, circa 1965. Tobacco cultivation has been an important economic activity in Colquitt County since 1925.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
clq063.

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Tobacco Warehouse

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