Wright Potato House
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wright-potato-house-306-4025908
title:
Wright Potato House
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The Wright Potato House was a small 1+1⁄2-story building near Laurel, Delaware that was built to store harvested sweet potatoes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Sweet potatoes were a dominant crop in Sussex County, Delaware, and numerous potato houses were built to store them. After a blight in the 1940s, the crop became less important and many potato houses were allowed to deteriorate or were converted to other use. The frame building was about 20.17 feet (6.1
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United States historic place
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Potato_House
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2023-08-10T05:48:10Z
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