The Kentucky Quilt Project - Preserving Kentucky's Historic Tobacco Barns

(dressagedaily.com) While on your Kentucky adventures you will be struck by the beauty of the scenic countryside filled with horses, crops, and barns. You will notice that some of the barns are beautifully decorated with large quilt squares. These barns are a part of Kentucky Art Council’s Quilt Trail. This project was started to preserve barns in rural Kentucky. Most of these barns were used for drying tobacco and are no longer used because fewer farms grow tobacco. Howeverthe barns continue to be an important part of Kentucky’s heritage and the Quilt Project is helping to preserve their place in kentucky history. Continued

Photo: "Tobacco barn, showing how it is dried. Location: Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky ... 1916". Library of Congress