JA Ranch Milk & Meat House & Eclipse Windmill -- Ranching Heritage Center, Texas Tech Univeristy, Lubbock TX
N 33° 35.368 W 101° 53.039
14S E 232351 N 3720366
Interpretive signs at the Ranching Heritage Center on the campus of Texas Tech University explain the uses of many historic ranch buildings relocated and preserved here.
Waymark Code: WMTH4H
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/24/2016
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An interpretive sign at the Milk and Meat House near the Eclipse windmill on display at the Texas Tech Ranching Heritage Center reads as follows:
"JA MILK AND MEAT HOUSE c. 1880
The front room of this structure from the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas is a meat storage/workroom. Hooks on the rafters suspended carcasses of meat. Slatted walls allowed air circulation yet repelled predators. In the stone-walled milk room, was a water trough filled with cloth-covered crocks of dairy products, eggs, and other perishables. Cool water from a spring or windmill flowed through the trough and cooled the food.
ECLIPSE WINDMILL 1898
The Eclipse was the windmill of choice on the South Plains of Texas. Its 14-foot wheel could draw water from great depths."
Group that erected the marker: Texas Tech University Ranching Heritage Center
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Ranching Heritage Center
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
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