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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: October 7, 2012
Caption: The Jones Point Ropewalk
Additional Description: The Jones Point ropewalk was a two-story building with larger wheels than are pictured here, but the process of making rope was the same. Walking backward between two reels a spinner unwound lengths of hemp from around the waist and spun the fiber in each hand to create rope. A spinner could walk as much as 20 miles in a 10-hour workday. Close-up of image on marker
Submitted: April 14, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p579574
File Size: 2.624 Megabytes

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