You know, you wouldnt want to have your chimney catch on fire. So the cooks was done outside. Youll see chests in there filled with we have one filled with tools an just other odds and ends. Youll see a crosscut saw on the wall which would have been an essential tool to have. Here on the settlement. The large logs that we have set up over there arebad, to demone how someone would split wood. By aprocess of using either an iron wedge or a big wooden wedge and they have made it would have looked like a giant wooden hammer. They are actually pretty heft beyond and they are called beatles, which means to strike or to hit. So you would use the beetle, drive it into the iron wedge, would which eventually split the log by length. And you could keep continue splitting it and splitting it to where you could get sizes big enough for a splitrail fence or the shakes or the shingles on the house. So it was an easier way of splitting your wood up. Weve got chunking in between. So and i believe it i
Tract, which was given to lord fairfax and the borden track south of that. But huge holdings. And then those members of the aristocrats that owned those lands were to settle it within a certain number of people within a certain number of years. So there was a lot of finangling of land and difficulties in people acquiring title. But meeting with the surveyor and finding a vacant piece of land and coming back with the guide and seeing if that property was available for purchase. And then prices of course varied depending on whether it was good bottom land or upland or whatever. But there were problems many times in acquiring final title. There were overlapping claims an you read about somebody might improve a piece of property and then some years later find it is claimed by somebody else. That was not infrequent. At that time, in the 18th century, north of us, what is Rockingham County and north, would have had a larger number of folks from germany, which this area which is now augusta c
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