- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
Henderson County.
Around 1880,
Henderson had 17
stemmeries in the city and 18 in the county.
Stemmeries were
where tobacco was
stripped from its stem and...
- and pla**** football. He also
managed the
Liggett and
Myers Tobacco Co.
stemmery.
Coach Norman Shepard later recalled, "That 1924 team was characterized...
-
producing areas. Many of the
buildings remain. The
factory building along with
stemmery buildings and
warehouses are used in the
manufacturing process of tobacco...
- from $25,000 to $40,000 per year. He also
owned and
operated a
tobacco stemmery which emplo**** 50 men and
shipped directly to Europe. In the
twenty years...
