Root Cellars in America: Their History, Design and Construction 1609-1920

Root Cellars in America: Their History, Design and Construction 1609-1920
ISBN-10
0981614167
ISBN-13
9780981614168
Category
Fruit
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
2012-04
Publisher
Powwow River Books
Author
James E. Gage

Description

For most people, the term “root cellar” evokes an image of a brick or stone masonry subterranean structure tunneled into a hillside. These classic root cellars are only one of a number of different types of structures used to preserve root crops, vegetables and fruits over the past 400 years. The other structures include subfloor pits, cooling pits, house cellars, barn cellars, field root pits & trenches, and root houses. Root Cellars in America provides a history of all the structures, discusses their design principles, and details how they were constructed. The text is accompanied by period illustrations from the agricultural literature along with archaeological photographs.

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