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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: Butter Churn
Additional Description: Young enslaved women used this butter churn, a variation on the barrel churn, in the dairy at The Hermitage. In 1850, they produced 1,000 pounds of butter. This required skimming the cream off thousands of gallons of milk and then churning that cream into butter. Springhouse water kept the milk cool while the cream rose to the top for skimming. The finished butter was also stored here until the Jackson’s sold it in Nashville.
Submitted: February 9, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p192164
File Size: 0.127 Megabytes

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