Manatee Historical Village for the umpteenth time

Thank you Hootin Anni for the new website to play on... It is called pho.tohttp://pho.to/ and this photo was an edit in Antique Photo on that site. Check out Anni's Roses HERE

house and two barns in the village

Good Fence Thursday- Manatee Historical Village2

Today's Fence Fotos were found in  Manatee Historical Village. Joining TexWisGirl In Good Fence Thursday.   I have over 30 post about this village. For a former post on Village Fence back in 2013 CLICK HERE

 

You will never be as lazy as the person who named the fireplace.

A Canadian psychologist is 
selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog’s IQ. Here’s how it works: If you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog 
is smarter than you.
Jay Leno

 Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. Lemuel Washburn

Two Barns - Historical Village

When I was 13, my friends parents had a barn. She had older brothers who delighted in squirting us with milk causing us to run and scream and laugh. We often sat with our legs hanging out the hay door, enjoying life. Oh Youth...

Youth is a gift of nature, but old age is a work of art.. Stanislaw

 

Old barns tell the best stories........

Barn Rules

 If you ride it, feed it

If it drinks water, give it some

If you unlock it, lock it back up

If you borrow it, return it

If you don't know, ask

If you leave a mess, clean it up

If you break it, fix it

If you move it, put it back

If you throw it down, pick it up..

Random PICS and other stuff

Two Bowls from Historical Village

Bob new plane, not flown yet due to weather conditions

I used the magic of PhotoShop and put him and the new plane in the park...

 AND NOW

Bunker Hill School- Manatee Historical Village

 

This school served the Bunker Hill area from 1908 until 1929. 

 There were from ten to twenty-five students attending during the school-year which ran from August through December in the early years and eventually was increased to seven and then nine months. Classes began at 8:00 A.M. and were dismissed at 4:30 P.M.

 Students were from six to twenty-one years of age and from the 1st through 8th grade.

  

 

The school was acquired by B.D. Gullett in 1929, dismantled and moved to his property near Duette. It served as a home for Mr. Gullett and later his daughter, Sallie Gullett Bradley, for sixty years.

It was moved to the Manatee Village Historical Park in the fall of 1989 and restored as a one-room school by dedicated volunteer labor. 

UPDATE: Rebecca asked why there are two doors on the school. I had no idea. Searched Sir Google and found the answer... One for boys and one for girls, they were segregated and sat on different sides.
Here is the LINK to find the info on the 2 door thing, including homes and churches in the late 1800's.
 

 Food was not provided by the school, but was brought each day by the students in a lunch pail and was usually staple food that was normally served on the family table.

I attended a 2 room school much like this one in 1953 in Kentucky. There were 6 of us in 4th grade and we shared a room with 1st through 4th.. I had never had water from a bucket with a shared dipper. I decided to make a  cup by folding  a sheet of notebook paper into a hat,

When I pumped the water into it... YOU KNOW WHAT happened... I did learn to drink from that dipper.

Good Fence Thursday - Historical Village

Stephen's House, Manatee Historical Village. Fencing is every where.

In 1920 my great grandfather built and identical swing like this one, he hung it on the front porch of their house in Palmetto. One very much like this house. I spent many happy hours swinging and reading. One foot dangling and my head on a pillow, push and rock, push and rock and read... My grandmother died in 1969 and mother brought the swing home to Savannah from here. It hung on our back porch until my mother died in 1989 and it came back here to live in my back yard.

Our dog Max and MadSnapper in Oct 1989... Bob did hang it the next week and I read in it for many years. Because it was not on a covered porch, eventually it rotted and died at age 90, the swing not ME...

Manatee Village is a trip back in time to my childhood.

Joining TexWisGirl at Good Fence Thursday

Sewing Machine - Manatee Historical Village

Sewing Machine Memories as I wandered through the times past in the village.

This is the type machine my Daddy's mother, Carrie Terrell McCall 1886-1959, used.  You will find her photo in the link of her name.

She once sewed right through her pointer finger with it. She also caught her fingers in the wringer washer.

 Times were hard for her, my grandfather had a stroke that put him in a wheel chair while her 7 children were young. 2 girls 5 boys born between 1906 and 1917.

She ran the general store, took care of her husband, raised 7 children, sewed all their clothing and cooked and cleaned. All of this in rural Georgia during the depression and as the south still reeled from the Civil War between the states.

1st Manatee County Courhouse 1860

If you walkn under the 100 year old oak, and around behind the school, from the rear of the school you
see the side view of the old courthouse.

Walk around front and enter the 1st Manatee County courthouse, built in 1860 by Eziekel Glazier.

The year is 1860, no need for a fire in the stove, it is a hot summer day, the flies are buzzing, the mosquitoes are waiting on you and the judge will step out through the door and  behind his desk any moment now.

 

The two tables wait for the lawyers or maybe not. you may be on your own...with only 2 people per sq mile in all of South Florida, there are not many lawyers. Or judges for that matter.

 Pick a bench and get ready for the show and HOPE that you

will not be sitting in the chair below, reserved for the Guilty... 

Back then justice was quick and you were guilty until proven innocent.

But they did provide a spittoon for you

It might be the last thing you do because you might be strung up in that tree if

it is The Hanging Judge

Stephens House-Manatee Historical Village

 

 HEY..HGTV.. this bedroom is ONLY 80 sq. feet and has no attached bathroom.. In fact the potty is out in the back yard.. The bath part is sitting on the dresser. Feel like crying? hold your home made teddy bear while rocking to comfort yourself.

Or step out on the back porch and enjoy the room while sitting in the porch swing.

Now get up and take 10 steps off the porch to pump the water for your bath and cooking...

I am so bad... this is a 7 AM update to this post... Guess what I forgot??? Bob says this morning whit our first cup of coffee... What is today's date? MS thinks a full minute and says OH!

Today is our 31st Anniversary and I totally forgot... and this is not the first time. soooo To Bob and Myself..

Walkabout- Mantee Historical Village

Manatee Historical Village 2016

Sandra:  I can't figure why my knees hurt so bad today, I can barely get up and down and I was fine yesterday.

Bob: "Some mornings me and Jake have a breakfast fit for a king, and Jake gets a taste of all of it".

That was his answer to what I said this morning. Since I was certain I had his full attention, I went into a long exciting story that I got from my friend Shirley at the YMCA..

Bob's answer..... "Who's Shirley?"

My answer.. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO SHIRLEY IS, DID YOU HEAR A WORD I SAID?"

General Store. Manatee Village

 More photos to come in the next few days, I did a Walkabout in The Village this week, Me, Myself and I with the Nikon.

Civil War ReenactmentPo - THE END

Authentic bunkhouse on a local ranch, from the past. Moved to the village to preserve it. ... it is two story's because mosquitoes do not fly that high. They did not have glass windows, but shutters.

The Soldiers used this for their dressing room during the reenactment

1860 Portable Potty for the Officers

If you get bored, here is a link to Obscure Facts You Did not know about the Civil war......

And 10 Surprising Civil War Facts.... 

Pot to boil sugar cane and make sugar and syrup and molasses

Antique inhaler, enlarge to read instructions