Chester County Farm Visit Travels Through Time
By Carolyn Roland- In Delaware and S. Chester County PA, Carolyn Roland, GRI, CRS
(Independent architectural histor'n)
Agricultural Antiques & Modern Machines were the subject of the Town Tours and Villaage Walks last week in Cochranville, Pennsylvania. This was quite a switch from my usual forays into the countryside to look at historic buildings. The men and women of the Upper Oxford and Londonderry Historical Commissions gathered antique farm equipment from friends and neighbors, as well as modern air-conditioned monster machines. We went from the wooden plows pulled by horses or mules to John Deere tractors, to monster equipment costing several hundred thousand dollars. I can't pretend to be able to explain this machinery but one particularly large piece the size of a small cabin brought to mind one episode of "Midsomer Murders" where a victim wandering a field at night is run over by the steel kn...
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