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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Google Maps street level view is not available. Location is Google Earth confirmed; 42°37'02.31"N 77°17'09.59"W. Current owner of record, Danforth as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Italy and Yates County Maps
Scattered throughout the countryside are numerous smoke houses where meat and fish were cured. This one is at 1080 Italy Valley Road near Naples. They were the only means of preservation before the advent of refrigeration. A smoke house is a small enclosed out building, often with a vent, and a single entrance with no windows. Smoking meat was a European tradition carried over into this country. The meat, such as pork, was heavily salted and then smoked over a slow burning wood fire. The upper areas of smokehouses are blackened with smoke. A meat house has a solid wood floor, a smokehouse will have a brick pit in the center of the dirt floor, or sometimes a broken/cast-off cast iron pot, for the fire. Richard Palmer blog.
"A Brief History of Cobblestone Architecture in Yates County, New York", By Richard F. Palmer.
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¹ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
