This could kill somebody

swamp hunter said:

OK...That's all good and I thank everybody for the Local information to a Flat lander Fla. boy...But Why did they dig a deep well there when there is a good running creek 500 yards away....400 hundred of it is straight downhill...sharp.
Was the original creek a lot more uphill , It was a cool looking bit of woods but it was mostly man made mess.
Erosion from bad farming seems to have bout destroyed the original landscape.

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Nicodemus said:

That`s a long way to tote water. Especially on wash day. That`s why most folks around South Georgia had their well dug close to the kitchen. Ours was about 5 steps from the back porch at the home place. Daddy also dug another down by the corncrib to water the hogs when he penned em up.

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PCNative said:

Some of the big holes around farms were dug to dispose of dead chickens on farms that had chicken houses. I've run across several of these where the remains of the houses were long gone. The ones I've seen were seven or eight feet across and twenty or thirty feet deep.

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specialk said:

we had a bored well dug at our lease about 25 years ago....the well digger came out and dug 3 holes before hitting a good table of water.....the 2 holes left were about 25 or so feet deep(maybe more). when things were done and he wanted payment we asked about him filling in the open holes. he laughed and said that was on us, he didn't fill them in. we had to hire a guy to come in with a backhoe to do it. thought that was strange.....

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