Sarah Friday's 1810 Granby Drawing
Hane's Salt House
Pork was a popular meat in Granby. Without refrigeration, other methods had to be used to preserve the meat. This was the purpose of a salt house. There were many different stores in Granby, and the fact the Hanes had a salt house probably means the Hanes store was mostly a meat store. In the salt house, salt and brown sugar were rubbed onto the hams. They were left sitting in salt for weeks and then washed off and covered in pepper or ashes. Many of the hams were then placed in a smokehouse, where they could hang for very long periods of time, sometimes years.
In the Granby archaeological dig, we found meat-hooks which could have been in a smokehouse on the Samuel Johnston homesite (near Friday's Ferry.) Click here to view those dig artifacts.
Hane Salt house site: Status: Destroyed by quarry hole. Archaeology is not possible at this location on the quarry property (Click here to see this location on a map)
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