Photograph Showcase: Men Threshing Grain
“In the 1850s, however, wheat became a viable cash crop in a number of central and southern Piedmont counties, making threshing machines fairly common…Early stationary threshing machines were often called “groundhog” threshers because when in operation, they appeared to be digging into the ground and kicking refuse out from behind them. Groundhog threshers were comprised … Read more . . .