The Stoppel Smoke House

Roughly 30 feet behind the farm house stands the two-story multi-use building that the History Center calls The Smoke House. Really, though, it is much more. Built into the side of the hill, the bottom floor features a privy, a small workshop, a storage area with a cave carved into the hillside, and access to the lower section of the smoking room. The second story features a plastered room next to the smoking shaft, and a double-doored room that opens to the hillside.

We believe at one point this multi-use building would have been used to house farm hands as well as providing extra storage. The cave carved into the hillside projects quite a distance into the hill. At the end of the cave, a skull and crossbones symbol is carved into both sides of the cave wall.