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Title Bldg. #274 Meat House & Root Cellar
Date August 19, 1975
Description Image shows building #274, the meat house and root cellar, located near milepost 6 at Humpback Rocks, Va., in Augusta County on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The image features the opened window to the log structure, made of apparently crooked planks. The interior of the structure, as viewable via the opened window, is barred by a wooden grate. A cement marker bearing the number 15 stands just to the left of the structure. F. A. Ketterson, Jr., took this picture on August 19, 1975.
Location Location Name: Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm
Parkway Milepost: 5.8
Latitude: 37.970833
Longitude: -78.898333
Creator Individual F.A. Ketterson, Jr.
Tags Cellars, Root
Humpback Rocks (Va.)
Structures
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway