Author: David G. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Limekilns
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Lime Kilns in the Lower Jordan Valley
Author: David G. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Limekilns
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Limekilns
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Lime Kiln Legacies
Author: Frank A. Perry
Publisher: Museum of Art & History @ the McPherson Center
ISBN:
Category : Lime
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher: Museum of Art & History @ the McPherson Center
ISBN:
Category : Lime
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Lime Kilns in the Lehigh Valley
Author: David Drinkhouse
Publisher:
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Category : Kilns
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Kilns
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tell es-Sultan/Jericho in the Context of the Jordan Valley: Site Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development
Author: Lorenzo Nigro
Publisher: Lorenzo Nigro
ISBN: 8888438122
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Lorenzo Nigro
ISBN: 8888438122
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Story of Lime and the Lime Kilns of Lancaster County
Author: Kenneth G. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764360732
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Lime is a white, powdery substance widely used in construction, agriculture, and industry. It is manufactured by heating limestone. Small amounts may be produced in an open fire but more effectively when enclosed. Early pits were lined with stone and in time enclosed in an oven or kiln. The 19th-century lime kiln, of Roman design, was a large "pot" dug into a hillside, surrounded by a stone box resembling a huge fireplace. Many thousands were built in the Susquehanna River valley. During settlement of "Penn's Woods," large tracts were subdivided many times, and by 1925 we find 12,000 farms in Lancaster County alone, and nearly every farmer wanted to produce his own lime to sweeten the fields and make mortar, plaster, and whitewash. In the most recent record, the 1875 county atlas, we find more than 500 kilns, a peak time for "do it yourself" lime burning. Commercialization relieved the farmer of the hard and dangerous work of lime burning, and the kilns fell idle around the turn of the century. Today we find evidence of 128 extant kilns in the county. Some are little more than remnants of former stonework, but others remain sturdy and sound. Their photos in this book reveal the art and labor of our ancestors who played a major role in the development of our nation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764360732
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Lime is a white, powdery substance widely used in construction, agriculture, and industry. It is manufactured by heating limestone. Small amounts may be produced in an open fire but more effectively when enclosed. Early pits were lined with stone and in time enclosed in an oven or kiln. The 19th-century lime kiln, of Roman design, was a large "pot" dug into a hillside, surrounded by a stone box resembling a huge fireplace. Many thousands were built in the Susquehanna River valley. During settlement of "Penn's Woods," large tracts were subdivided many times, and by 1925 we find 12,000 farms in Lancaster County alone, and nearly every farmer wanted to produce his own lime to sweeten the fields and make mortar, plaster, and whitewash. In the most recent record, the 1875 county atlas, we find more than 500 kilns, a peak time for "do it yourself" lime burning. Commercialization relieved the farmer of the hard and dangerous work of lime burning, and the kilns fell idle around the turn of the century. Today we find evidence of 128 extant kilns in the county. Some are little more than remnants of former stonework, but others remain sturdy and sound. Their photos in this book reveal the art and labor of our ancestors who played a major role in the development of our nation.
Friends' Intelligencer
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The Geology of Minnesota
Author: Minnesota. Geological and Natural Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Pennsylvania Folklife
Author:
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Category : Pennsylvania Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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