Author: Isaac Phillips RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Farmstead
Author: Isaac Phillips RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Bulletin of the Pratt Institute Free Library
Author: Pratt Institute. Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Root Cellars in America
Author: James E. GagePublisher: Powwow River Books
ISBN: 0981614132
Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Free Public Library Commission of the State of Vermont
Author: Vermont. Free Public Library CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library commissions
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Board of Library Commissioners of Vermont
Author: Vermont. Board of Library CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Country Gentleman, the Magazine of Better Farming
Author: The Country Gentleman
Author: Root Cellars in America: Their History, Design and Construction 1609-1920
Author: James E. GagePublisher: Powwow River Books
ISBN: 0981614167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
For most people, the term “root cellar” evokes an image of a brick or stone masonry subterranean structure tunneled into a hillside. These classic root cellars are only one of a number of different types of structures used to preserve root crops, vegetables and fruits over the past 400 years. The other structures include subfloor pits, cooling pits, house cellars, barn cellars, field root pits & trenches, and root houses. Root Cellars in America provides a history of all the structures, discusses their design principles, and details how they were constructed. The text is accompanied by period illustrations from the agricultural literature along with archaeological photographs.
Rock Fences of the Bluegrass
Author: Carolyn Murray-WooleyPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813147794
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape. Why did Kentucky farmers turn to rock as fence-building material when most had earlier used hardwood rails? Who were the masons responsible for Kentucky's lovely rock fences and what are the different rock forms used in this region? In this generously illustrated book, Carolyn Murray-Wooley and Karl Raitz address those questions and explore the background of Kentucky's rock fences, the talent and skill of the fence masons, and the Irish and Scottish models they followed in their work. They also correct inaccurate popular perceptions about the fences and use census data and archival documents to identify the fence masons and where they worked. As the book reveals, the earliest settlers in Kentucky built dry-laid fences around eighteenth-century farmsteads, cemeteries, and mills. Fence building increased dramatically during the nineteenth century so that by the 1880s rock fences lined most roads, bounded pastures and farmyards throughout the Bluegrass. Farmers also built or commissioned rock fences in New England, the Nashville Basin, and the Texas hill country, but the Bluegrass may have had the most extensive collection of quarried rock fences in North America. This is the first book-length study on any American fence type. Filled with detailed fence descriptions, an extensive list of masons' names, drawings, photographs, and a helpful glossary, it will appeal to folklorists, historians, geographers, architects, landscape architects, and masons, as well as general readers intrigued by Kentucky's rock fences.
A Classified Catalogue of Selected Standard Books Suitable for a Public Library
Author: A.C. McClurg & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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