My parents bought a farm, 500 acres with a barn built with timber cut on the farm and house built of bricks made from the clay of the Conoquenessing Creek. There were seven hand-dug wells and one windmill. Inside the attic of the three story house was a fifty foot long 9 foot diameter copper water tank.\
The house was built in 1806-7-8 (It took that long.) by a retired sea captain from New Bedford, Mass a couple of free-men, and for sure a pair of local American Indian brothers. The original cistern, on the side of a VERY steep hill, wads made of what looks like granite, was four feet deep - six long - and six wide. The water was always very, very cold and as sweet as a mouth full of honeysuckle blossoms. I wish that it was still in the family but, like much that I was blessed to be a part of ads a youngster, it is no longer what it once was.
Terry
