Summerville history steeped in tea

  • Jim Tatum
  • Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
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Tea pickers work a field on Dr. Charles Shepard’s tea farm. A skilled picker could make up to fifty cents a day in a time where most laborers earned, on average, a dollar per week.

Tea pickers work a field on Dr. Charles Shepard’s tea farm. A skilled picker could make up to fifty cents a day in a time where most laborers earned, on average, a dollar per week.