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History
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| The house where the hemp museum is was built during
the XIVth century, by a reach country-man. During the XVIIIth, it was
the town
house (
weddings, conscription and so on...). Before the 2nd world war, an
owner destroyer the outside and the inside, selling the stones around
the windows, the chimney, the ceilings.
An association, in 1995, began to restaure it and installs the hemp museum.
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Why
hemp? because it was a very important cultivation of the valley, and
the industry of hemp weaving employed a large population of Bligny till
1900
(80 weavers in 1850).
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Hemp harvesting
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