Pacific Northwest Gardening: Laurie's Garden Tour, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
to the right of that mud track, we now have this.

This is the puddle iron drinking trough that I told you about last summer - I so regret that I didn't photograph it while it was sitting in the field - it was quite something, looks like an enormous inverted bowler hat - but it was originally set into the ground like this one is. The were drinking troughs for dray horses along side the toll roads (until I saw this, I had never thought about how they got enough water for the post horses, and haulage horses, now I know). although there is no exact date on this, we think it would have been made sometime around late 18thCent. early 19th. And that makes it roughly about the same age of our barn.