Posted by RMinVa on November 20, 2010 at 07:26:26 from (67.142.166.20):
In Reply to: Before tractors posted by onefarmer on November 19, 2010 at 21:50:41:
Great pictures and thanks for posting them.
Big difference in different areas of the country. My Dad was the first on this highway to own a tractor. He bought it in 1948. That was the same year Mecklenburg Electric put ele. power in this area. My dad pulled the wire with his tractor.
State Rt. 40 was upgraded from a single lane dirt road in the early 30's. My grandfather and his family moved to this farm in 1929. My Dad says he remembers seeing the work crew building that road with picks and shovels and some mule drawn equipment. The labor was provided by the Va. prison system. Dad said he saw men with striped cloths on and some had ball and chain. Rt. 40 wasn't paved till the late 30's. I worked a farm beside it years ago and found the old road bed. Still has the ruts from wagons and what few cars and trucks were in this area then.
Never seen any steam engines in my area except on the blue ridge parkway. They used them for sawmills there. In this area they used model A or T to power the saw. We used mules to cultivate tobacco until 1968 and that's when I bought a new 140 Farmall. Before the first tractor dad bought all the tobacco land was turned with a team.
This was and still is a poor area when compared to west and north of us. Even with steam engines those folks worked hard every day.
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