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From: "M. White" <>
Subject: Re: Horse troughs in stage coach days
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:05:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200501191100.j0JB0FMu014899@lists2.rootsweb.com>


They were probably mostly wooden, but stone and cast iron horse troughs
date to
the late 1800s (and probably much earlier). The "Californian
Historian" mentions
the dedication of a an 1878 stone horse trough by the Native Sons of
the Golden
West in 2003
(http://www.californiahistorian.com/articles/spring-03-symposium.html)
and the "Humboldt Chronicle" [TN] has a picture of an iron one from the
late 1800s
(http://www.humboldtchronicle.com/archives_page/2003/june/news3_06-18-
03.html).
However, since there are so many trees in CA, I suspect that most of
them were
probably made out of wood.
- Mike

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