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A boy stares up at the ceiling inside a historic tobacco barn. The barn is still in use and long green tobacco leaves hang from wood beams across the inside of the barn.

Photo By/Credit

Photo Credit: Kesha Lambert, courtesy of The Trust for Public Land/TPL

Date Shot/Created

02/01/2022

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

A young man stands in an old tobacco barn on the property of Meadowood in Simsbury, CT. During the summers of 1944 and 1947, Martin Luther King Jr. worked at this tobacco farm, saving money for college, and expanding his horizons. (Photo Credit: Kesha Lambert, courtesy of The Trust for Public Land)

Ecosystem

Forest

Recreational Activity

Subject tags

Artifacts

Connecting people with nature

Rural areas

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