Homestead Interpretive Site Cleanup – Feb. 22, 2012
We had five volunteers today working on rehabilitating the Old Homestead Trailhead site. Our goal was to stabilize the walls of the 100 year old root cellar and clean and clear the old hand dug well.
We purchased cedar split rail fence which we installed around the old root cellar to help prevent further damage from folks climbing into the old cellar and knocking loose the carefully dry staked walls of the cellar.
We cleaned the cellar of decades of debris and carefully rebuilt two places where roots from nearby pine trees had disturbed the west wall and where some trail users had removed some stones on the south wall. Fortunately the stones from the walls were in the bottom of the cellar, covered in debris.
Once the walls were rebuilt and stabilized we installed a 10’ X 20’ rail fence around the site.
We also cleared the old hand dug well of debris, vines and limbs.
We will be installing an interpretive sign describing the old homestead, built between 1895 and 1900.
Jerry