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8-25-2025
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The corn crib is the only building from the farm that is restorable. It stands between the walkway and a branch of Puskus Creek. The Japanese smartweed and stilt grass that surround it were introduced to Mississippi in the early 1900s. The smartweed was an ornamental landscaping plant. The stilt grass was used as packing material for fragile goods like porcelain. Both are now considered invasive.
Corn was not a cash crop when William Faulkner purchased the farm. It was used for livestock feed and was the key ingredient in making homemade whiskey. "The home production of spirits was widespread” explains Jim Gully, who researched the history of Greenfield Farm, "nowhere more so than in Beat Two." While most of the U.S. voted to repeal prohibition, Mississippi remained dry until 1966, four years after the death of Faulkner.
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