Potatoes deeply rooted in county history

When the white men came, they found the Indians raising potatoes. A few days after Rev. Smith arrive in 1849, he wrote in his diary: Bought three bushels of potatoes $1.50 pd. cash.”

Smith cleared some land the first season he we here and raised a number of bushels of potatoes. In 1850 he wrote “I have dug my potatoes 50 bushels.”

He store potatoes in holes in the ground and also in his cellar.