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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 18, 2013
Caption: A Storied Landscape Marker
Additional Description: Photograph Captions: (bottom left) American Indians gather acorns from oak trees and use bedrock mortars to pound them into flour. They harvest milkweed, deergrass, and bracken fern. (Mary pounding acorn, Yosemite Valley, c. 1913; (top right) Off in the distance, you can see where German immigrant George Meyer built two barns in the early 1880s. The National Park Service restored them in 1996. They feature hand-hewn timbers, peeled logs, fieldstone foundations, and hand-split sugar pine roof shakes.
Submitted: May 28, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p243092
File Size: 3.485 Megabytes

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