ASHEVILLE - When Kathleen Hodgson stepped into the Antique Tobacco Barn, she was looking for a coffee table but ended up with a vintage jacket that had a colorful plaid-like pattern, and an old ...

The Antique Tobacco Barn, a business on the banks of the Swannanoa River, is past surveying the damage. They're looking toward rebuilding for the future. The entirety of the 77,000-square-foot ...

The barn and product were deemed total losses. Adams Fire Department Chief Donovan Tucker said the estimated loss of tobacco is $98,000, with the barn itself a $150,000 loss.

Charleston, S.C. residents Kathleen Hodgson and her daughter Penny, 8, take a break from shopping to speak to the Asheville Citizen Times inside the Antique Tobacco Barn along Swannanoa River Road ...

It is not uncommon for burners in tobacco barns to reach 1300 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that any part of the barn made of wood should be several inches away from the burner or the heat exchanger.

The barn and everything inside were a total loss. "This was a huge barn, it had like nine acres of tobacco in it," Chief Tucker said. "Estimated loss of that was $238,000. Huge loss." ...

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - An old tobacco barn at the Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm is getting a facelift. They broke ground two months ago on a new state-of-the-art visitors center that ...

"Just a rough ball park, between the barn, the tobacco and everything, I lost at least $20,000," he said. "With the rain we've had lately, tobacco is more than likely going to start falling off.

That was quite a day, because most of the time the people that had the barn raising, the family, would furnish dinner. That barn right there would hold 440 sticks of tobacco, hand-strung.

Lucille Walker said the tobacco barn on her Upper Marlboro property, which dates to the early 1800s, would have collapsed if she hadn't received a $10,000 grant in 2006 to restore it. Grant ...

Tobacco barns have a lot of open spaces, and you can tell when they're empty. But some, like this one in Kentucky's Bourbon County, have racks of golden crisp leaves hanging inside.

The Leairds are renting their eight barns to fellow Harnett farmer Danny McDonald. He has been working tobacco for about 40 years, since he was 10.