Salting House
Introduction
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Salting House
Interior of the Salting House
Backstory and Context
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Audio description of the Salting House by Historical Interpreter Noah Janis.
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Enslaved people killed around 200 hogs each December to provide a year’s supply of meat for everyone on the plantation. The original Salting House you see here is where they prepared and stored the high-quality cuts of meat for the Collins family and their guests. Having a separate building accommodated the relatively large volume of pork, fish, beef, and lamb that the family consumed, and louvers you see at the top of the structure kept the interior cool all year long.
Sources
Self-Guided Tour Brochure, Somerset Place State Historic Site.
Somerset Place State Historic Site
Somerset Place State Historic Site