Oldtimer
Well-Known Member
If it is the privy, it was last used in the middle 1840's.....It is a stone wall forming an open ended box, with the open end facing the house foundation. It is about 7' x 8' and about 10' away from the edge of the foundation. I rummaged around in it, and in this area of 100,000,000,000,000 rocks, there were none in the bottom I could find...All I found was pure black dirt. Mind you, I had no diggerer, so i only dug down about 10". Still, I would have found a rock I think if this was not a privy.
FYI, this old farmstead was moved down off the Mt behind my house (which was also moved down, and is the oldest house in my area) in the early 1840's...So i figure there was no reason to fill in the privys. I am told that the foundation I am speaking of was at one time the POST OFFICE! I am very stoked to go back and dig in earnest.
whataya think?
FYI, this old farmstead was moved down off the Mt behind my house (which was also moved down, and is the oldest house in my area) in the early 1840's...So i figure there was no reason to fill in the privys. I am told that the foundation I am speaking of was at one time the POST OFFICE! I am very stoked to go back and dig in earnest.
whataya think?
