Sitting in the out house. Whew! It was hot in there. I only wonder why they had two holes inside. Did people actually sit side by side and take care of business? Yikes!
This is the outside of the Stephens House. Notice the beautiful old, cracker tin roof? Love it!
This was just inside this house. The kitchen was located in the center of the house and there was and in/out porch that ran all around the house. Each of the bedrooms were located off this circular porch. There was a very small common room, but it appears that most of the "living" was done on that porch. SO, SO cool! Very clever!
The kitchen was the largest room in the house. It held the dining room and a food pantry that was the same size as the bedrooms. Plus there were built-in food storage spots. Funny was that you could see through the floor boards right to the ground under the house.
Kayla tried out the pump that was on the porch that overlooked the barn. There was a metal tub hung up outside that I told K was the bathtub and she looked at me like I was crazy!
A display inside the general store. They had some old Sears & Roebucks catalogs that we looked and found pantyhose for .17 and felt shoes for 1.97.
The sign from the old hotel.
They have weddings in the church, picnic tables set up outside and a very old cemetery just across the street that I want to check out next time. I hope Kayla will want to go again!
if you enjoyed that might i suggest that you look into cracker country at the state fairgrounds here in tpa. they are open to the public once a month i believe. i wanna say the first saturday.
ReplyDeleteit is all old florida history and real buildings that were brought in and donated by a famous florida family, the carlton's.
check it out. FUN times.
Excellent! Gonna have to go there before we leave. That has always been on my "hit list".
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