Mullins offers glimpse into life when tobacco was king

MULLINS, SC (scnow.com) For those who have lived in Mullins, the smell of tobacco is all too familiar. The town grew up as the industry exploded in a profusion of warehouses and tobacco barns.
In recent years, however, the pungent, sickly sweet aroma has begun to fade. And as it does, a community that once flourished with industry, one filled with excitement and offering opportunity to the young, is fading with it. Continued

Photo: The oldest known extant tobacco warehouse in the state and the first brick tobacco warehouse in Marion County. A major tobacco-producing county in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. (Library of Congress).