To Market Audio Interviews

Farmers Featured:

Harold Malcomb, David Smith, Arthur Hamilton, Junior Grisham, Jerry Stafford, Freida Smith, Joy Morgan, David Chappell, Dallas Stafford, and David Lyons.

This is the final step in the tobacco production process and is the day all farm families worked toward. This mural features the tobacco market in the glory days of the 1950s-1960s when farmers would take their stripped tobacco to market and watch it sell. It features five framed images – Unloading, Packing, Weighing, Selling and Pay-Day. Farmers took great pride in their tobacco crops and made sure the tobacco was packed neatly on the tobacco baskets. They stayed at the market to watch their crop sell as the buyers made their way through the warehouse. This Pay-Day would ensure the farmers could pay their creditors, pay their tithes to church and have money for Christmas.

This mural is located about 4 miles north of Perry Park on Highway 355.