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    1. Re: [VAROOTS] Rolling Houses
    2. Wm. Flake Joiner
    3. At 10:51 PM 8/20/03 -0400, you wrote: >Now What is ROLLING HOUSES?? A Rolling House was a tobacco warehouse. I think that the name derived from the fact that the huge hogsheads (barrels) of tobacco were literally rolled into the warehouses. Wm. Flake Joiner 311 East Church Street P. O. Box 406 Troy, AL 36081-0406 <wfjoiner@p-c-net.net> DESK 334-566-9968; CELL 334-372-1160 See list of available publications from the Pike County, Alabama Historical & Genealogical Society at: http://www.intersurf.com/~johnjanr/hsp.htm "Progress was fine for a while; it just went on too long!" - Annette Shackelford Parks

    08/20/2003 05:10:04