Jars of food and empty bottle

Jars of food and empty bottle
A Visit to Ms. Catherine's House

Hewn Timber
Cabins Home

Ms. Catherine's

Background
on the Cabin

Quick Tour of
Ms. Catherine's

List of
Illustrations

Jars of food and empty bottle

Ms. Catherine had a big garden and canned lots of jars of food. She also used a bottle like the empty one here to make medicines from the roots of plants.

Photo courtesy of Zeta Phi Beta, 1999.

Note: More information available from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), pp. 56-59.