Tobacco Prize
Tobacco-prizes were designed to tightly compress the cured tobacco into hogsheads. Two basic types of prizes exist. The earlier version, dating back to colonial times, was a vertical prize which was less costly to build. These were similar to the sword prize illustrated by William Tatham in An Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture and Commerce of Tobacco, published in 1800. Later in the 19th century, a horizontal prize came into use but it needed more specialized pieces of iron hardware. The hardware for the horizontal prize you see before you was made by the James J. Lacy Iron Foundry in Baltimore, Maryland, at the turn of the 20th century. Founded after the American Civil War, Lacy Foundry in business today. They manufactured iron products ranging from light poles for the city of Baltimore to the metal parts for farmers' tobacco prizes.| HM Number | HM2K7H |
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| Placed By | Historic St. Mary's City |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Monday, September 2nd, 2019 at 8:01am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 374781 N 4227129 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.18340000, -76.42975000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 11.004', W 76° 25.785' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 11' 0.23999999999997" N, 76° 25' 47.1" W |
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| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling East |
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