soon to be newbie!!

Bird · Mar 28, 2004

( Some of the old deeds go from the old oak tree to the snow pile to the pile of rocks etc)

Yeah, I knew about the stone walls and the measurement of a rod (but I'd forgotten how long a rod was), and lots of old records are hilarious reading. I have an original copy of The Bexar County Highway League's Official Logbook for Texas, 1914-1915 (A Touring Hand Book of the Principal Automobile Routes in the State of Texas). All directions from one town to another all over the State are written like your old deeds. They give a mileage number and then what will be found or what you do at that mileage. Just as an example, in the directions for Fort Worth to Waco, at 55.5 miles "Turn left at large barn. Residence on right, cedar trees in yard" and at 56.5 miles "Turn right at white house with three white gables". Windmills, trees, houses, barns, railroads, creeks, and power lines are the "landmarks" used in the directions throughout the book. In the directions from Galveston to Dallas, several places say "road ends, turn right (or left) through pasture".

tcv49 · Mar 28, 2004

Hey Frank.....thanks for the reply.....no concerns about the water.....the house is 50 feet from the water, but the walk out basement will about 12 feet above water level......Please look at my post about the Ingersoll 7020TLB that have found...let me know any input....thanks and happy tractoring!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Junkman · Mar 28, 2004

If you don't mind my asking, where in NH is your home? I used to live in Antrim back in the 1960's and spent a lot of time on Franklin Pierce Lake. Also learned to water ski on Lake Sunapee, but that is a story that the moderators wouldn't allow me to tell here! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

tcv49 · Mar 28, 2004

we're in Newton, NH junkman....next to Kingston, Haverhill, MA

PineRidge · Mar 29, 2004

Also learned to water ski on Lake Sunapee, but that is a story that the moderators wouldn't allow me to tell here!


Come on Junkman, we would all like to hear the water skiing story. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
please, please, please!

Junkman · Mar 29, 2004

Her name is Suzy and she is the daughter of my collage professor of history. His family owns a lodge on the lake and they rent boats and cabins. She invited me there for the weekend. We arrived late Friday evening and took one of the boats out on the lake and went around the cove to this cozy little retaurant for dinner and a few beers and then returned to the cottage to get a good nights rest so in the morning she could teach me to water ski. We lit a fire in the fireplace, and then censored....... censored...........censored......... censored........if you keep this up Junkman, we are going to kick your butt out of here! censored.......... censored... and that is the rest of the story....

SteveH_CT · Mar 29, 2004

Wow - that's a familiar sight - We could probably start a thread just on the rocks here in eastern CT. I've got stone walls running all over the place on both our properties. One other thing I've found on our East Haddam lot is that large rocks (unmoveable) often had smaller rocks stacked on them. It appears that whoever was working the land in the 19th century would simply move the rocks onto the ones he couldn't move. It makes sense to me. I can't imagine how the old time farmers got the land so well cleared without the machinery we enjoy today.