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| Date: | Wed, 31 Aug 1994 23:38:23 EDT |
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Regarding privies, cisterns, and wells, one good review of nineteenth-century
cistern construction practices is "Brother Farmer, build you a cistern", by
Erich Scroeder, in Landscape, Architecture, and Artifacts: Historical
Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Illinois, 1993 (E. Schroeder, ed.),
Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 15, Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency. It includes a review of cistern construction methods from 19th
century agricultural journals, as well as a description of two cisterns from
archaeological sites in Illinois.
Cregg Madrigal
Rutgers University
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