Fort Yargo's Beehive Oven

Frontier cooks baked bread and roasted meat in domed beehive ovens, cheaply shaped from clay and straw. Once fired hot, the ashes were raked out and food set on the retained heat to cook.

Fort Yargo's Beehive Oven is a historical marker in Winder, Barrow County. It is one of 24 historical markers documented in Barrow County, among 57 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.9763, -83.7347 near Winder. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Yargo's Smokehouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Fort Yargo's Log Structure, Fort Yargo's Cabin, and Fort Yargo's Living History Society.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.