🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Well or trash pit?

[Nathan W]

There's two large craters about 10ft from each other. This area is behind park I work. The overlay map doesn't quite put the supposed house right here but this is the only thing of interest I've seen. There's iron and brick barely Poking out of the ground in spots and a ton of signals. The areas around it are hard to swing from the briars. Is this most likely part of that homesite?

 

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[DCMatt]

How big are the craters? I'm no expert on privies, but at 10 feet apart, that's what would guess. Apparently, back in the day there was method to where the outhouse was placed. When the hole got full, they just moved it a few feet to one side or the other using the dirt from the new hole to fill in the old one.

 

[Nathan W]

How big are the craters? I'm no expert on privies, but at 10 feet apart, that's what would guess. Apparently, back in the day there was method to where the outhouse was placed. When the hole got full, they just moved it a few feet to one side or the other using the dirt from the new hole to fill in the old one.

Probably 6 or 7 ft in diameter

 

[Nathan W]

How big are the craters? I'm no expert on privies, but at 10 feet apart, that's what would guess. Apparently, back in the day there was method to where the outhouse was placed. When the hole got full, they just moved it a few feet to one side or the other using the dirt from the new hole to fill in the old one.

No that I think about it I would say 4-5 ft around and not 6-7

 

[ncsuwolf]

How big are the craters? I'm no expert on privies, but at 10 feet apart, that's what would guess. Apparently, back in the day there was method to where the outhouse was placed. When the hole got full, they just moved it a few feet to one side or the other using the dirt from the new hole to fill in the old one.

A lot of them were on skids, so dig a hole, hook up a horse/mule, drag a few feet and viola…..new crapper

 

[Nathan W]

A lot of them were on skids, so dig a hole, hook up a horse/mule, drag a few feet and viola…..new crapper

Do you know how far usually the outhouse was from an actual house

 

[ncsuwolf]

Do you know how far usually the outhouse was from an actual house

Guess it depended on how much lime you had vs how nose blind you could be. Based on pics of our home place, the Johnny was 30-40 yds away. Close enough to easily transit, but far enough to control flies.

 

[Fred Finder]

There's two large craters about 10ft from each other. This area is behind park I work. The overlay map doesn't quite put the supposed house right here but this is the only thing of interest I've seen. There's iron and brick barely Poking out of the ground in spots and a ton of signals. The areas around it are hard to swing from the briars. Is this most likely part of that homesite?

Back hoe time 😏

 

[Nathan W]

Back hoe time 😏

Hey I got machinery at work