What is it? Archaeological Evidence of 19th-Century Agricultural Drainage Systems

Abstract

I appreciate the all helpful suggestions made by Mary Beaudry, LuAnn DeCunzo, and Terry Klein. Thanks go to the two anonymous reviewers for their comments. I want to thank David Landon and Ann-Eliza Lewis for their excellent editorial suggestions. I would also like to thank Robert W. Venables for all of his insightful comments on earlier drafts of this article. I greatly appreciate all the time and effort Alyson Taylor put into creating the numerous diagrams of drains for the refernce guide. I thank Jason Thompson for his attractive and meticulous drawings of the hollow channel drains at Fisher farm. I want to thank Thomas George, a Cornell undergraduate student who undertook an independent study with me, for his thoroughness and hard wokr as he helped me search for examples of agricultural drains in early 19th-century agricultural journals. The staff of the Geneva historical Society has been most gracious and helpful by providing me with access to their collection and allowing me to photograph their drain tile collection. I especially would like to thank John Marks, Curator of Collections at the Geneva historical Society, for carefully reviewing the manuscript, reviewing my refernces to Marion weaver's work, and approving my adaptations of Weaver's drawings. Lastly, I would like to thank all the hardworking and dedicated students from Cornell University and Ithaca College who excavated the two drainage systems at the Fisher Farm.