Our farm here, my grandmothers and another old farmstead long gone now had 2 of these in close proximity to each other, still there today, but I recall them 35 years ago, all flat stone lined. I have a photo of the one near the front porch of our old house, it had the hand pump and was covered with a concrete lid or so it appears. This place had a drilled well later on, no sure how deep, but the old time driller that did it, also did the one here at the house, the old up and down rig, nothing was turning. He mentioned that the aquifer here could supply an unlimited supply, based on what he saw in his lifetime of doing this. That was in the late 70's and that rig he had, I wish I had a photo of it, it was ancient looking then, the truck it was on was late 30's or so.
We too had a brick cistern, behind the barns up into the field a little, when they excavated the area nearby they discovered it, must not have been in use, there was burnt garbage in it, bricks are still floating around, and the worst was the lead pipe, that heavy flexible stuff, I still have a nice length of it that I recall from then, turned up somewhere near where it was. I can't imagine using lead pipe for potable water, humans or livestock, guess they did not know back then.
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