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Photographer: Courtesy Williamson County Archives
Caption: Williamson County Crops
Additional Description: At the start of the Civil War, Williamson County had fields of tobacco, sorghum, fruit trees, wheat, and cotton, but the largest yields were corn, maize grew at Carton, the Carter House, and nearly all of the other 1,400 farms in the county. In breads, stews, and mush, the crop was staple in the diet of cilians, slave, and soldiers alike. It was also the key ingredient in one of the most popular medicines of the time – whiskey.
Submitted: May 15, 2017, by Brandon Stahl of Fairfax, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p382558
File Size: 0.051 Megabytes

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