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Lunch & Learn – Smithfield’s Disastrous 1921 Wharf Fire at Isle of Wight County Museum (Smithfield)
August 17 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Today marks the 105th anniversary of the fire that radically changed the town’s economy. Citizens raced down to the docks to the loud screams of steamboat whistles and the clanging of church bells. The conflagration consumed most of the industry that made Smithfield the peanut capital of the world and was only stopped by the well-timed arrival of Suffolk’s new motor pump fire engine. Come to the museum to learn the dramatic story of the blaze that turned the town’s focus from peanuts to ham.
