Posted by GarryinNC on January 07, 2013 at 14:38:45 from (66.44.242.47):
I was talking to my dad over the weekend, he is 87, and we got to talking about people around here( piedmont NC ) that had what were called 'milk wells'. They were simply a dry hole, about 12 inches or so diameter, about 10-12 feet into the ground. Most had a little 'dumb waiter' apparatus and a real small well house covering the well. Folks used the 50-some ground temp to make milk, butter, etc. keep longer.
My dad's family had what was called a 'spring box'. It was just a wooden box with a trough and holes in the bottom that sat in a spring near where it came out of the ground. The cool water flowing through helped keep the dairy products from spoiling as quick. They also had a home made ice box with hollow sides filled with saw dust for insulation and lined with thin metal.
The got the electricity and a refrigerator in 1939.
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