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Then and Now Reminiscences of Rabbit Bottom Sorghum Mill
Judge D F Morrow recounts life around the Rabbit Bottom mill from 1856 to 1865. He details the farm layout, the old sorghum mill with its oxen and sweep, boiling and making sorghum, plus rural customs like candy pulling, and community gatherings led by Phip Flaxen with boys and girls joining the festivity in a frosty November night.
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Loy
Phip Flaxen
Phip
Carnahan
Mattie
Bill
Tom