Water from another time... Here are a few stones, bricks, wood and other miscellanies – most of them obscure – that you might have seen at the time the

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Part of the rock foundation of a fire-curing tobacco barn.

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Water from another time... Here are a few stones, bricks, wood and other miscellanies most of them obscure that you might have seen at the time the items transcribed in this disk were first recorded All content copyright Carole Watterson Troxler 2002 unless otherwise acknowledged. Part of the rock foundation of a fire-curing tobacco barn. One of Alamance Countys first tax-funded schools, built in the 1850s and still used as a school and polling place in the early 20 th century Interior of a barn that may have been in use when the 1850 and 1860 agricultural censuses on this disk were recorded. High February water where a river-crossing at the Shallowford remained the focus of a neighborhood throughout the 1800s Traces of the old road to the Shallow Ford Corn crib in fore ground Using narrow planks Increased its ventilation Poles mark the vertical rooms of a tobacco barn. Photo by Pat Bailey, 1999A similarly constructed early 1800s house, little altered and more or less continuously inhabited Two-story chimney stack of the residence at an 1840s academy Inside a late 1800s feed- grinding mill Remnant of rockwork for a mill dam A goose nest beside the Haw Two Postcards of Grahams Main Street, Looking north from the old court house Side by side, the cards made a single view Who might the little fellow have been? Water from another time It dont take much, But ya gotta have some, The old ways help The new ways come Leave a little extra for the next in line, Theyre gonna need a little water from another time [C1987 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)]. Thanks to Pat Bailey, Marge Brahmey, Wilson Cable, Mike Holland, Jane Iseley, John McCutcheon, Martha McDuff, Tom Magnuson, Edgar Pritchett, Kelly Reimer, Mike Ross, George Troxler and Jeff Wilkins for their advice, hospitality, permissions and comradeship.