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Storing sugar in Kentucky.(Current and coming)(Kentucky Sugar Chests)(Brief article)
Before steamboats began plying the Mississippi River in 1818, it could take a flatboat more than a year to make the journey from New Orleans to Nashville. This made goods expensive, and none more so than cane sugar, which was deemed superior to any of the sweetners that were available locally. Because imported sugar was so valuable, housewives kept it locked up in a chest that was designed specifically for that purpose and is unique to Kentucky, southern Indiana, and Tennessee. Today it is thought that more were produced in Kentucky than in all the other regions combined.
An exhibition that surveys this singular furniture form is on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, until December 2. Organized by museum volunteers and furniture historians Clifton Anderson and Marianne Ramsey, who is also a professor at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, the show is entitled For Safekeeping: The Kentucky Sugar Chest, 1790-1850 and includes more than ...
- A short history of the Tennessee sugar chest.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Hicks, Robert Caldwell, Benjamin Hubbard, Jr. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...transforming the lowly sugar box into sugar chests, sugar cases, sugar tables, sugar stands, sideboard sugar chests, sugar desks, and--while not...survey this year of ninety-one sugar chests that can be identified as having...
- Residents chronicle Smithville's history: Items were once displayed in a...
- News wire article from: Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) June 17, 2006 700+ words
...church for betting on horses and when sugar was transported in sugar chests. The Kindreds didn't live that history but they got it...settlers came by covered wagons and transported sugar using sugar chests. They said they're passing their family history down to...
- Southern bottle cases.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques McPherson, Anne S. August 1, 2004 700+ words
...originally partitioned for the storage of six square gin bottles; the other two compartments anticipate the pattern of southern sugar chests of the nineteenth century, with the larger of the two intended to hold brown sugar and the smaller for white sugar or coffee...
- Southern manners: a Tennessee native celebrates his roots.(antiques dealer and...
- Magazine article from: Country Living Masello, David September 1, 2006 700+ words
For antiques dealer and collector David Duggin, sugar chests and pottery jugs, carved corner chairs and canopy beds have personalities as vivid as those of people. "When I meet a piece...
- LOST TO THE ASHES.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 28, 2008 700+ words
...shaper, joiner, wood planer and 5-foot lathe that allowed him to breathe life into the many highboys, sideboards, sugar chests, benches, tables and corner cabinets he's made. But Whitaker couldn't stop to create on Saturday. His wife, Louise...
- One competitor uses an interesting tactic to beat Star's expert.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 2, 2009 700+ words
...Cotton Bowl (12:15 p.m. today): Texas Tech over Ole Miss Liberty Bowl (3 p.m. today): East Carolina over Kentucky Sugar Bowl (6 tonight): Utah over Alabama International Bowl (10a.m. Saturday): Buffalo over Connecticut Fiesta Bowl...
Source: HighBeam Research, Storing sugar in Kentucky.(Current and coming)(Kentucky Sugar...