Re: Barns painted red orgins

Posted by NEsota on May 11, 2006 at 06:33:29 from (64.131.26.14):

In Reply to: Barns painted red orgins posted by sjh on May 10, 2006 at 18:43:46:

Under the work-bench in the farm shop, built about 1875, there was a wooden box with a red powder about the same texture as baking flour but heavier. As a kid, Dad told me it was used to make paint. I believe it was iron oxide and later got the impression that milk was mixed with it to make red paint. To comment further on the resourcefulness of the pioneer Nebraskans, my great-grandfather baked clay and made bricks right there on the place he homesteaded in 1867. That same year that land became part of Nebraska the State instead of Nebraska the Territory. I do not know what fuel was used to fire the bricks. Wood was scare in that county bordering Bloody Kansas and one county away from Missouri. There was some coal mined in there in the early days.

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• Re: Barns painted red orgins Dachshund 09:23:07 05/11/06 (1)
  • Re: Barns painted red orgins NEsota 21:15:26 05/17/06 (0)

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