Leaning tobacco barns fill the beautiful winding back roads of Kentucky. Forgotten weather-worn wood shifting to one side. These tired landmarks dot counties throughout the Commonwealth. Every time I ...

BURKESVILLE, Ky. — Just off a bend in the Cumberland River stands a weathered tobacco barn whose split and slivered planks have gone missing piece by piece. Lois "Nan" Coffey, 95, points in ...

Around each curve in rural Kentucky, it seems, there's another tobacco barn. Many of them are like old gentlemen — still handsome but kind of falling in on themselves. There was a time in Kentucky ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) _ A few Kentucky agencies met recently to discuss preserving parts of Kentucky's rural landscape that are as familiar as its rolling hills: Its deteriorating barns. Representatives ...

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY. (WSIL) -- Crews in Calloway County battled a massive tobacco barn fire. It happened near the 300 block of Christian Lane in the southern part of Calloway County. The owner called ...

The quaint village of Port Tobacco in the rolling hills of southern Maryland, an hour from Washington, has a few pre-Revolutionary War homes on a square and a rebuilt courthouse that only hint at what ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A state with one of the highest smoking rates in the country is paying farmers to paint anti-smoking messages on old tobacco barns. The program in Kentucky pays farmers to paint ...