SEGMENT: TRANSPORTATION, ORCHARDS, & HAZARDS
Gray Herndon>UIS Collection H-I>UIS Collection H-I, Segment 8
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- TRANSPORTATION
- People forded creeks before bridges. Notes that cuts in river bank can show location of old fords.
- ORCHARDS
- No apples when settlers arrived. Settlers planted orchards. People without orchard would take wagon to go get apples.
- FOOD STORAGE
- Describes food storage method involving burying of turnips, potatoes, apples, and sweet potatoes in a pit lined with straw and covered with six inches of dirt.
- HAZARDS
- A man took a horse team and wagon to gather apples and had to cross a ford on the way back late at night after a rain had raised the water level several feet. He and his wagonload of fruit were swept downstream. Talks about other fords when there were no bridges.
