Smokehouse - Tessentee Bottomland Preserve

[HotSun]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for sharing this post, but this is an 'other smoker'.

We found this beauty on a hike in Franklin, NC:



I wasn't sure it was a smokehouse at first, but given that it was the only stone building on the property, it was a good guess. This is part of the Tessentee Bottomland Preserve and dates back to the late 19th century. The inside was too dark and didn't have any hardware (hooks, shelves, etc.), but it was pretty interesting.

The property itself is where the Tessentee Creek meets the Little Tennessee River.

Preserve website:

https://www.mainspringconserves.org/be-a-mainspring/properties/tessentee-bottomland-preserve/

Google Maps location:

https://goo.gl/maps/r3V34FE5KjnMXEop6

What can I say, I'm a smoking nerd.

[Murdy]

Could be an old root cellar too, check out the picture on the cover of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Root-Cellars-America-Construction-1609-1920/dp/B010TSVBSM/?tag=pfa12-20

some more:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2F2H50GT4%2Fold-stone-root-cellar-with-a-wooden-door-elliston-newfoundland-2H50GT4.jpg&tbnid=B2SF1ACRWizZDM&vet=12ahUKEwjHyvO54Pz_AhXfEt4AHd5IDPoQMygPegQIARBt..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alamy.com%2Fstock-photo%2Fold-stone-cellar.html&docid=qjM_DQp9dZDr0M&w=1300&h=956&q=stone%20cooling%20cellar%20woods%20old%20historic%20found&ved=2ahUKEwjHyvO54Pz_AhXfEt4AHd5IDPoQMygPegQIARBt

[HotSun]

Yeah, possibly. They called it a smokehouse, and it was a working farm until the 1990's, so maybe they knew the history.

[Murdy]

I'm sure they did, that old stuff is cool. I ran into an old cellar last fall in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Some of the locals said there was a farm in the area many years ago, but I saw no sign of it other than the cellar.

[DTro]

That's pretty cool. Just in case anyone is wondering what the inside of a smokehouse might look like, here is an interior photo of the smokehouse at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Of course that meat is well aged by now.

[HotSun]

Thanks for sharing, DTro , very cool!