Fort Yargo's Smokehouse

Before refrigeration, families preserved pork and other meat by curing it in smoke. Living-history members built this smokehouse using 18th-century hand tools, recreating how settlers kept a winter's food supply from spoiling.

Fort Yargo's Smokehouse 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 33.9762, -83.7348 near Winder. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Yargo's Beehive Oven (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 Frontier Fences.

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