Barnwell Pecan Orchards

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Workers harvest pecans in 1918 at the Barnwell Pecan Orchards along the Flint River near Albany. In the late nineeteenth century, farmers in Albany began to replace cotton with pecans as their primary commercial crop.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # dgh161.

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Barnwell Pecan Orchards

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