Morrison Plantation Smokehouse

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Morrison Plantation Smokehouse
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Nearest city Saginaw, Arkansas
Coordinates 34°16′12″N92°56′50″W / 34.27000°N 92.94722°W / 34.27000; -92.94722 Coordinates: 34°16′12″N92°56′50″W / 34.27000°N 92.94722°W / 34.27000; -92.94722
Arealess than one acre
Built1854 (1854)
NRHP reference No. 77000254 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 28, 1977

The Morrison Plantation Smokehouse is a historic plantation outbuilding in rural Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Located off County Road 15 near Saginaw, it is the last surviving remnant of a once-extensive forced labor camp. It was built about 1854, probably by the forced labor of enslaved people, on the plantation of Daniel Morrison. [2]

It is a hexagonal structure, built out of dry laid fieldstone, and capped with a hip roof that has a gabled venting cupola at the top.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Morrison Plantation Smokehouse" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-10-26.