Northern Georgia, Oconaluftee Visitor Center and Mountain Farm Museum, Smokehouse
A few years ago, my sister and brother-in-law moved into their retirement dream home which they built in Union County, GA just outside Blairsville. It is a small community with only 652 residents (as of the 2010 census) in town — Union County itself only has 21,566 residents or maybe two more now. Once the pigs were butchered, their meat was salted to preserve it (note the hollowed out log which was probably used for that purpose) then hung from the ceiling. Some farms would then smoke the meat by using a small fire filling the structure with cool smoke which helped both with the preservation and also provided that smoky flavor that some ham has even today.
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Location: Northern Georgia, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
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