Smokehouse
Introduction
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Interior of Smokehouse showing horseshoe hearths
Smokehouse

Backstory and Context
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Audio description of the Smokehouse by Assistant Site Manager Christa Hobbet.
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Enslaved people preserved meat for the Collins family by smoking it in this smokehouse. They shoveled hot coals into the three brick hearths and used different types of leaves to create various flavors that the Collins family desired, including hickory leaves. The 1839 inventory of the Smokehouse included 434 smoked hams inside this structure, which had been smoked over the course of five years.
Sources
Self-Guided Tour Brochure, Somerset Place State Historic Site.
Somerset Place State Historic Site
Somerset Place State Historic Site