[Alexa]

Looks sort of romantic! I like those lovely houses. And with the roses around, should be a good place to live in the spring, summer and autumn time. I suppose the winters are comparatively cold around there.

[mojo]

Looks sort of romantic! I like those lovely houses. And with the roses around, should be a good place to live in the spring, summer and autumn time. I suppose the winters are comparatively cold around there.

Most of this park is located in Mississippi. It's a southern state. So they are not set up to deal with either ice or snow. If either occurs in the winter, there are no salt trucks to dissolve ice. The best they can do is spread sand on the bridges. Everyone just shuts down till the ice and snow are gone. Mostly a matter of a day or so.

These houses were built before insulation was commercially available. So they have no insulation in them beyond the thickness of the wooden walls. That means fireplaces to keep them warm. Down in Louisiana, some of the older homes used moss as insulation in the walls, around the community of Evangeline, Louisiana there is a similar museum of local homes of the period of early settlement that show this.

[mojo]

Inside the Drane house.

[mojo]

This is a foot powered lathe. Since electricity nor steam engines had been invented yet, foot power was one of the methods used to turn wood.

Another was done by water power where a water wheel was used to supply the power. I have been in a water powered wood shop before, many years ago but sadly I can offer you no pictures of it. It had a central shaft coming off the water wheel, where many different wooden pullies were mounted. Each pully a different size depending on speed needed for the tool to be used. Each pully system went to a particular tool, had a belt that transferred the power, and an idler wheel to take up the slack when that tool was to be used.

As explained by the sign, this is the Margaret Adams Kimball Museum. I can not show you images of the inside as it was closed when we arrived.

This ends the images I will show you for the Natchez Trace Park.

[MSL]

 It is one of the best threads in this forum! Thanks a million!

[Alexa]

We miss Mojo and his topics so much.

[MSL]

 I am often thinking about him and remember many of his wise words.