30 Buildings Where an American Farm Made Everything It Owned (The Catalog Ended It)

An American farm in the 1880s bought salt, coffee, nails and needles. Everything else was made in the yard: soap in the ash house, cloth in the loom house, whiskey in the still house, and gas light in a concrete shed forty years before the power line. What variety did your family keep, and what did they call it? Then send this to the one person who can still say where the sugar house stood. #FarmBuildings #ForgottenSkills #1880s #FarmLife #RuralAmerica