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The Sugar Shack at the Whitlock's place

2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey
The sign on top reads "Sugar Shack" on the Whitlock farm in Green County, KY and it is where a batch of molasses was being made recently. Helping but not pictured were Stella Whitlock and Mrs. Aaron Whitlock.
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Molasses making starts with the sugar cane stalks

2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey
Making molasses in this region begins in the cane fields, bringing in a wagon load of the stalks for pressing out the sugary juices. Aaron Whitlock, at left, and his sons, Atticus and Lucas, work with Rev. Dennis Penick at the mill squeezing out the juices. The juice gravity flows to the Sugar Shack for the next step.
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Big changes on the Square, 1945

2020-10-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy JIM
Big changes happened on the Square in 1945. An ad from April 11, 1945, at right, announced the opening of J.C. Marshall's Furniture Store. An ad from October 17, 1945, announced the opening of his brother Paul Marshall's Variety Store.
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