Richard H Kimmel wrote:
>
> Dan et al.-
>
> That is a load of glass.  Do you have any references of glass being
> used to deter rats and insects?  I think your "guess" is right;  I
> have an 1873 entry from a diary by William Wallace White, Vance
> County, NC, saying  "...brought 3 Bbl's [barrels]  iron shavings, to
> put between walls of house to make it rat proof."  White's house
> burned and he was rebuilding on the original foundation.
>
> The only layers of glass I know of were from a bottle dump at Buffalo
> Springs, VA.  The company that bottled the water claimed they did not
> reuse bottles for sanitary reasons but I suspect they didn't want
> people rebottling water under their name.
>
 
There are historic references to the "crocking" of gardens, but the
galss under the floor was a first for me. I just thought that vermin
control was the only answer I could come up with that made sense.
 
Dan