Tobacco Barn & Old Trace Drive, Milepost 401.4

This barn was built for Mr. Leland Greenfield in 1959 from timber grown on this farm. Mr. Greenfield first grew tobacco here in 1932. The Greenfield family had owned the land for 100 years before the State of Tennessee purchased and deeded it to the Natchez Trace Parkway in 1977.

Burley tobacco was grown and air-cured here. It's a hard crop to raise, each acre requiring about 250 hours of labor. In comparison an acre of wheat is only about 3 hours. Burley tobacco must be air-cured for four to six weeks in the barn before it is ready for market.