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Hand Operated Water Pumps
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Description:
To Waymark those old, beautiful hand operated water pumps found in market squares, old streets, and other historical sites.
Expanded Description:
An old hand operated water pump was used to supply water prior to the widespread use of windmill pumps, electric pumps and city water systems. Usually an old pump was made from cast iron, wood or tin.

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Typically an old pump was found in the market square, small street in the old part of town and often now at historical sites. Pumps were very important to people up through the 19th century as houses seldom had indoor plumbing with running water. During that time you would often find hand operated pumps throughout towns and on farms. People would pump the water into buckets and carry them to their houses to use in cooking and cleaning. Sometimes you will still find an old stone basin near the pump where, in some towns, once a week women came to do the laundry. And, unfortunately, sometimes these old pumps also spread sickness, such as cholera, in parts of the city. It is these relics from the past we seek to Waymark.

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Instructions for Posting a Hand Operated Water Pumps Waymark:
This category seeks to Waymark those hand operated water pumps that were once working, and are no longer in day to day use. An old pump was probably made from cast iron, wood or tin, was sited in a public place and may have a story. The pump will probably be over one hundred years old. An old hand pump that is still working but is no longer needed for its original purpose, please submit for review to be looked at on a case by case basis. A pump no longer in its original position will also be considered.

Ask yourself before posting.
Is this pump no longer working?
Does it look old? (Please state if it is a modern replica.)
Is it publicly accessible?
(The pump needs to be on public view, and not in someone else's private garden.)
Is it purely decorative?
Did it dispense water?
Does it still have a handle (or equivalent) for pumping?
Handle may have been removed. See Photograph requirements.

Now submit your find. Just submitting co-ordinates and photographs is not enough. Some text describing the pump and/or its history is also needed. Minimalist postings with poor quality pictures and inaccurate co-ordinates will be sent back for improvement.

If you are posting and English is your second language, please attempt to post an English translation of your native text. Thank you.

Co-ordinates.
Should be taken as close as possible with a hand held GPSr. Currently mobile 'phone and cameras with GPSrs are not recommended for reliable co-ordinates. If the pump is in a museum building, please use main door co-ordinates and describe in the box provided how to get from the main door to the pump. If it is determined that co-ordinates have been taken at a distance with camera or mobile 'phone, the waymark, if already approved, may be subject to removal by the group officers.

Photographs.
At least two good quality photographs taken with a camera, not a fuzzy mobile 'phone. Primary picture of the pump including the handle. If the handle has been removed, a third photograph of there once being a handle is needed. For example the fulcrum or slot where the handle was located.
A picture of the handle will help your posting.
Secondary picture of general area. Further photographs to enhance the posting, i.e. stone trough, date stone, history plaque.

Narrative.
If you can find out any history about this pump or the water system that replaced this pump, or was this pump a "Typhoid Mary", did it kill rather than give life, please add it here. If there was no handle, how did it pump by hand? Credit the sources from which you obtained or copied the text.

References.
Among places to find the location of old hand operated water pumps will be websites such as: Flickr.com and Geograph.org.uk The replacement water system may be in a local history book or website. If you can, please list other references to your posting.

Most variables are optional and are not troublesome.

Exclusions
A pump on private land. A stainless steel pump or other modern looking pumps. A pump that did not move water. A standpipe or tap with water under pressure. e.g. WM9ZWR

Instructions for Visiting a Waymark in this Category:
A quality photograph of the old hand operated pump showing another feature with or without someone or GPSr in view. Describe your route to the pump, perhaps.
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Hand Operated Water PumpsHand Operated Water Pump - Námestí, Nová Ríše, Czech republic

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Hand Operated Water Pump of interesting design.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Noe1

location: Kraj Vysocina, Czech Republic

date approved: 5/15/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHand Operated Water Pump - Dymchurch, Kent.

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A hand operated water pump sited in Orgarswick Avenue, Dymchurch, Kent.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member MeerRescue

location: South East England, United Kingdom

date approved: 5/7/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHand Pump at Chinon - Rue Voltaire

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[EN] This hand operated water pump is located in Chinon (37500) in the Rue Voltaire. [FR] Cette pompe à eau manuelle est situé à Chinon (37500) dans la Rue Voltaire.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Itamae

location: Centre, France

date approved: 5/7/2013

last visited: 5/3/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsPump at Historic Cave Springs School

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Old hand-operated pump at the historic Cave Springs school in Jasper County, MO

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member MountainWoods

location: Missouri

date approved: 5/7/2013

last visited: 5/4/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsPumpa Sobin, CZ

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Pumpa za branou sobinskeho hrbitova. A pump behind the entrance wicket of Sobin cemetery.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member taxoft

location: Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic

date approved: 5/5/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsSainte-Mère-Église Historical Pump - Normandy, France

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Sainte-Mère-Église is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy, France. The town pump at Sainte-Mère-Église is now a national monument.

posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member neoc1

location: Basse-Normandie, France

date approved: 4/30/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsBorges Ranch Pump - Walnut Creek, CA

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A water pump the the ranch house at Borges Ranch in Walnut Creek, CA.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: California

date approved: 4/16/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsJacob Hummelbaugh Farm House Water Pump - Gettyburg, PA

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A water pump in the yard of the NRHP & Civil War site, the Jacob Hummelbaugh Farm.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Math Teacher

location: Pennsylvania

date approved: 4/7/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsPleasanton Cemetery Pump -- Pleasanton KS

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An old hand-operated water pump outside of the chapel in the center of Pleasanton Cemetery on the outskirts of Pleasanton KS.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Kansas

date approved: 3/27/2013

last visited: 3/11/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsChicken Annie's Pump -- Pittsburg KS

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The old hand-operated water pump under a windmill in front of Crawford County's famous Chicken Annie's restaurant.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Kansas

date approved: 3/25/2013

last visited: 3/10/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHandpump, Walters Centry Farm, North Plains, OR

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This handpump is in North Plains, Oregon.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Queens Blessing

location: Oregon

date approved: 3/24/2013

last visited: 3/24/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsWiston - Village Pump - Pembrokeshire, Wales, Great Britain.

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A hand operated water pump. Set in its own enclosure at the centre of the small village of Wiston, Pembrokeshire, South Wales.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Lord Abercrombie

location: South Wales, United Kingdom

date approved: 3/6/2013

last visited: 3/5/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHouse pump of the water mill - Marédret - Namur - Belgium

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Hand operted pump of the water mill in Marédret.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member lopac44

location: Namur, Belgium

date approved: 2/19/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsPump of watermill in Marédret - Namur - Belgium

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hand operated old water pump of the water mill in Marédret.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member lopac44

location: Namur, Belgium

date approved: 2/18/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHandpumpe Brühlstraße Remmingsheim, Germany, BW

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There's an old handoperated water pump at the Brühlstraße in Remmingsheim, Germany, Baden-Württemberg.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Tante.Hossi

location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany

date approved: 2/17/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHand Pump @ the 1821 Home - Collingswood, NJ

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This pump was recently placed and restored in the back yard of this 1821 home.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Math Teacher

location: New Jersey

date approved: 2/17/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water Pumps"Dorfbrunnen" 07387 Zella

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Der Dorfbrunnen!

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Bianka11

location: Thüringen, Germany

date approved: 2/7/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsBeekman Bank Pump - Jacksonville, Oregon

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Historic well near the old Beekman's Bank building

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ddtfamily

location: Oregon

date approved: 1/27/2013

last visited: 3/9/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsOld pump at Hvidsten Inn, Denmark

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En gammel vandpumpe udenfor den legendariske Hvidsten Kro. An old pump outside the legendary Hvidsten Inn.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member kallehaugerne

location: Denmark

date approved: 1/22/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water Pumps"Dorfbrunnen" 07646 Gernewitz

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Der Dorfbrunnen!

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Bianka11

location: Thüringen, Germany

date approved: 1/21/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsSt Nicholas - Hand Water Pump - Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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An old hand operated water pump in the medieval town of St Nicholas . Located in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Lord Abercrombie

location: South Wales, United Kingdom

date approved: 1/19/2013

last visited: 7/13/2012

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Hand Operated Water PumpsTown Trust Parish Pump - LLantrisant - Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales.

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Historic hand operated water pump, located in what used to be known as the bull ring, now known as Llantrisant Square, in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Lord Abercrombie

location: South Wales, United Kingdom

date approved: 1/19/2013

last visited: 7/13/2012

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Hand Operated Water PumpsHand Water Pump - Llanblethian - Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Old hand operated water pump, near Brook cottage, in the village of Llanblethiann, in the historic parish of, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Lord Abercrombie

location: South Wales, United Kingdom

date approved: 1/18/2013

last visited: 1/18/2013

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Hand Operated Water PumpsThe Barn Pump - Arroyo Grande, CA

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A water pump in Arroyo Grande, CA.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: California

date approved: 1/18/2013

last visited: never

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Hand Operated Water PumpsWest Bay Common School Museum -- League City TX

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A cute old hand-operated red water pump and concrete water trough on the grounds of the West Bay Common School, now a living history museum, in downtown League City TX.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Texas

date approved: 1/7/2013

last visited: 4/15/2012

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