The Kitchen

The Kitchen. . , The Mims homestead was made up of a main house and several small buildings. The kitchen and smokehouse stood near here. , These were important buildings, necessary for. the preservation and preparation of food. The smokehouse served dual purposes to smoke and store the meat. The kitchen and smokehouse may have been combined into one building on the Mims homestead. , Around 3:00pm, the Red Stick Creek warriors set fire to either the smokehouse or the blacksmith shop, both located on the south side of the fort. The fire quickly spread to other buildings and the fort's walls. , The fire burned so hot that it melted cast iron cooking pots and glass., Captions: , Middle: , Artifacts recovered on this site during archaeological investigations. Left: fragment of a small table fork. Top: tea cup fragments decorated with multicolored, hand painted design often called "majolica"., Bottom: fragments of a dish decorated in a cobalt willow pattern, a decoration that mimicked popular designs on more expensive Chinese porcelain. , Source: Alabama Historical Commission, Right: , Representative illustration of a smokehouse, Henry Whitehead Place, Townsend, Tennessee. , Source: Library of Congress