Smith Tobacco Barn, Tobacco barn in Dillon County, United States

The Smith Tobacco Barn is a rectangular building with a metal gable roof, timber walls, and ventilation doors for controlling the curing process. The interior is divided into five sections by support poles, and the original brick foundation with double-arched firebox remains intact.

Bright tobacco reached South Carolina's Pee Dee region in the 1880s and 1890s, and barns like this one were built to flue-cure it. The name "J. L. King" and the date "1942" are scratched into the mortar chinking. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1984, when it was called the most intact tobacco barn of its kind in Dillon and Marion counties.

The name "J. L. King" and the date "1942" are scratched into the mortar chinking between the corner timbers, a mark left by whoever built or worked the barn. Inside, wooden tier poles divide the space into five "rooms" or "bents" where tobacco poles were laid across for curing.

The barn stands on the east side of a dirt road, 0.25 mi south of State Highway 17-34 and 0.5 mi north of State Highway 17-155, about 1 mi east of the intersection of Highway 17-22 and Highway 155. It is no longer in use as a tobacco barn, so the structure is viewed from outside; the shed roofs on the south and east sides and the bricked-in firebox on the south end are the features to look for.

Scratched into the mortar chinking is the name "J. L. King" and the date "1942", likely left by a builder or worker. The south end's brick double-arched firebox was later bricked in, and photographs show the fuel was switched to gas.