Re: Anyone know the history of rolling road
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Y'all know nothing
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Date: June 05, 2018 09:02AM
4ptmh Wrote:
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> Perhaps...
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> The tobacco fields spread on the mainland, and a
> number of the old Indian paths became tobacco
> rolling roads. The name came from the practice of
> packing the harvested tobacco in barrels called
> hogsheads and rolling them to the wharves,
> frequently a distance of miles. The rollers
> ordinarily tried to follow the high ground and
> avoided the fords, or shallow stream crossings,
> because water leaking through the barrels would
> damage the tobacco. The practice of following the
> old paths and branching off from time to time on
> higher ground accounts for many of the early
> meandering country roads.
Wrong wrong wrong
Its where George Washington used to have a rolling paper factory to supplement his hemp growing business