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Tom Porter’s Root Cellar, Elliston

Hillside root cellar with a square wood door on a stacked stone façade on a grassy hillside.

Photograph courtesy of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Tom Porter’s hillside root cellar  was built in 1879  and features a stone exterior and wooden door on its exterior. This cellar has an interesting piece of local heritage incorporated into its interior construction; part of the roof support structure is constructed with a steel beam that was sourced from The Eric, a ship that was wrecked off the coast near Maberly at Flower’s Cove in 1878.