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Back: Sorghum Furnace at Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum. Southern farmers boiled down the juice from their sorghum cane crops in furnaces to make a pure, amber colored syrup. In the late 19th century, sorghum was the most popular sweetener in the South.
Source: © 2003, Burritt on the Mountain
Date: 2003
Rights: From the postcard collection of George and Peg Heeschen, The Southpaw, Huntsville, Alabama