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English: Historic Marker at the corner of Paynes MIll Road and Lexington Road (U.S. 60), east side of Versailles, Kentucky.
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Camera location38° 02′ 58.33″ N, 84° 42′ 03.61″ W  Heading=280° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Hemp in Kentucky

First crop grown, 1775. From 1840 to 1860, Ky. production largest in the U.S. Peak in 1850 was 40,000 tons, value of $5,000,000. Scores of factories made twine, rope, gunny sacks, bags for cotton picking and marketing. State's largest cash crop until 1915. Market lost to imported jute, freed of tariff. As war measure, hemp grown again during World War II. See over.

1968 Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Department of Highways 1167

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