Narrow Plantation Hoe
date: label: date made
content: early-mid eighteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: The plantation hoe was a ubiquitous farming tool of the British Atlantic. Over two centuries, hoes were the “outcome of a pan-hemispheric commodity chain that terminated in the plantation zones of the New World” for the cultivation of tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton, historian Chris Evans writes.
label: Description
content: This plantation hoe was made in the early to mid 18th century in Maryland, and was brought to the valley of Virginia at the close of the American Revolution. It was collected in October 1888 near Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frank Burns
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.130463
label: catalog number
content: 130463
label: accession number
content: 21372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hoe, Narrow
label: Object Name
content: plantation hoe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 11.43 cm