The winnowing barn at Mansfield Plantation, Georgetown, SC. The last remaining winnowing barn in Georgetown County.Looking up into the winnowing barn at Mansfield Plantation, Georgetown, SC
Winnowing barns (or winnowing houses) were structures commonly found in South Carolina on antebellum rice plantations. A winnowing barn consists of a large shed on tall posts with a hole in the floor. Raw, husked rice was carried up into the barn by slaves and then the grain was dropped through the hole. As the grain dropped to the ground, the lighter and undesirable chaff was carried away in the wind, leaving a mound of purified rice grains directly below the winnowing barn. The purified grain was then packed into barrels and carried down river to port cities for distribution.
Prior to the development of the winnowing barn, winnowing was done by hand using winnowing baskets — a long and labor-intensive process. Thus, the development of the winnowing barn helped South Carolina become the second largest exporter of rice in the world, next to Indonesia and the Far East.
View from inside the winnowing barn at Mansfield Plantation. Note the hole in the floor where the unpurified grain was dropped
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barn and the related winnowingbarn Round barn, built in a round shape the term often is generalized to the include polygonal barn and octagonal barn...
the pounding mill and often connected by an underground system. The winnowingbarn, a building raised roughly a story off of the ground on posts, was used...
state's only remaining rice plantation with the original mid-19th century winnowingbarn and rice mill. The predominant strain of rice in the Carolinas was from...
a general machine to remove the grains from the straw or panicles Winnowingbarn, a previous method of hulling in commercial rice growing Randolph Barker;...
allée"), chapel, guest house, and grounds. It also has the only remaining winnowingbarn in Georgetown County, where rice grains were processed for shipment...
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remaining rice plantation in South Carolina that still has the original winnowingbarn and rice mill from the mid-19th century at the historic Mansfield Plantation...
pounding glutinous rice with mallets Molcajete Oralu kallu Rice hulls Winnowingbarn "Day 2 - Rice Pounder". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved...
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that the wind could blow right through the barn and across the threshing floor for the purpose of winnowing the corn. The flail continued to be used for...
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generally called a drive through barn. Occasionally the back door was small and only used for ventilation or winnowing. There were likely loose poles called...
referred to as an abbey barn rather than a tithe barn. Threshing and winnowing would also have been carried out in the barn. The barn which was built from...
the same machinery, the different processes of thrashing, shaking, and winnowing are now all at once performed, and the grain immediately prepared for...
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Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found." The Daily Cardinal is published...
History Camp Randall Experimental College Past Chancellors Sifting and winnowing Single-grain experiment Slab of Bacon Sterling Hall bombing Teaching Assistants...
in March 2010 shows that the barn has been converted for residential use. Street View in March 2010 shows that the barn and stable have been converted...
History Camp Randall Experimental College Past Chancellors Sifting and winnowing Single-grain experiment Slab of Bacon Sterling Hall bombing Teaching Assistants...
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View from inside the winnowing barn at Mansfield Plantation. Note the hole in the floor where the unpurified grain was dropped