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Home » Granddad’s Adobe House: by George Chatham
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Granddad’s Adobe House: by George Chatham

by Kent BrooksFebruary 16, 2015
By George Chatham Since lumber wasn’t readily available to the homesteaders, most homes were made of sod or adobe blocks. Sod was created by using a knife sled apparatus pulled behind a horse or team of horses which cut about an 18” wide by 3” or 4” thick slab of buffalo grass sod. Uncle Elder’s […]
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Tagged: 1955, 2015, adobe house, Chatham, Garage and Welding, George Chatham, South Horse Creek, WWII

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