- A
stemmery is a
building where tobacco leaves are
stripped for the
production of
tobacco products. The name is an
Americanism dating to the mid-late 1850s...
- The
National Tobacco Works Branch Stemmery is a
stemmery in Louisville, Kentucky,
located at 2410-18 W. Main St. It was
built in 1898 and was
listed on...
-
producing areas. Many of the
buildings remain. The
factory building along with
stemmery buildings and
warehouses are used in the
manufacturing process of tobacco...
-
Register of
Historic Places in 1988. It
includes a
stemmery, the W. B.
Lewis & Sons
Tobacco Stemmery, at 474 E.
Broad Street,
built ca. 1900, with a brick...
- and pla**** football. He also
managed the
Liggett and
Myers Tobacco Co.
stemmery.
Coach Norman Shepard later recalled, "That 1924 team was characterized...
- Norfolk, Virginia. The
buildings were
built about 1903 and
consist of a
stemmery and the
boiler room.
Albert F.
Huntt is
credited as the architect. The...
- upon the type of work. African-Americans,
primarily women,
worked in the
stemmery and on the
third floor; they
performed the most
difficult and labor-intensive...
- embarr****ment this caused. As of 1903,
Owensboro was home to
several stemmeries.
Pinkerton Tobacco produced Red Man (now America's Best Chew) chewing...
- Winston-Salem
workers to win $1,250,000 in back pay in the leaf
houses and
stemmeries. In 1943,
after a
Black worker fell dead at a
Reynolds Tobacco Company...
-
church was
built in 1830 at the
Vanada farm.[citation needed] A
tobacco stemmery was
built in 1860 and
shipped 400 to 450
hogsheads per year to Europe....
