The Oldest House - A primitive Stone House -- An Ancient Dugout Home?

View of the Workhouse from Highway Gate

The property has a gate.

Cover Slough that borders the property with the hot spring water

Here you can see the cover slough that borders the property, and the hot spring water that runs through the canal.  The designated wet lands are just beyond the cover slough.

Front of the Stone house

The Workhouse

Tepid Water in the cover slough

Vegetation on South Bank of Cover Slough

Driveway Gate Entrance to Highway

And the for sale sign.
The gas ? meter is in the lower left portion of this photo.
The gate is a heavy duty newer metal gate.  And there is actually about one car-length of asphalt paving the opening of the driveway.  But the driveway doesn't extend beyond that; it is too covered with trash.

For sale sign on the property - but its not selling

Outbuilding: Feeding Shelter

This outbuilding has heavy wooden beams.  It appeared to be a livestock feeding building.

It had a shed at the end - perhaps a grain storage building?

 Side View of the livestock feeding structure

Stone House - An Ancient Dugout House on the property?

This is a photo of a "dugout" home built by early western settlers.

My title research performed on this property does not indicate there are more than two houses on this property.

However, I believe this outbuilding is in actuality a third house on the property - that it is an old dugout house.  I believe at one time people may have lived in it and that the chicken coop was added on to the house.

There may be a lot of history buried around this building.

In the first photo here, there is an old sod house.  Now if you look at the photo of the front of the outbuilding on the property, the construction resembles that of a dugout house.

The Shop on the property - was aTractor Repair Outbuilding?

This outbuilding appears to have been an open shop.  There was a tractor repair business in trhe past on the property, so perhaps here is where they worked on the tractors.

There appears to be an airhose hanging, where they might have aired up tires.

Back side of the building.

Side view of the structure.

a barn on the property

I enhanced the color in this photo to show the beauty of the woodgrains in the barn wood.

The Outhouses

The outhouses were so buried with branches and debris, I nearly missed seeing them.  There are two outhouses side by side.

At one time the outhouses were lit.

Entering one of the outhouses

No toilet paper here!

These outhouses were double-seaters!

Back View of the Slaughterhouse with animmal pen behind it

This looks like a dead critter below the cage.

??

Inside the White House

Insulation is hanging down from the ceilings and littered on the floors

The Slaughterhouse

Front of the Slaughterhouse

Front of the Slaughterhouse

This is the slaughterhouse.  I was told by one of the landowners that the previous owner allowed his friend to slaughter animals there, and that the friend then sold the meat.

East end of the slaughterhouse.

West End of the Slaughterhouse.  Note the elevated animal cage behind the building.  I believe that was a holding cage for chickens, or other small animals about to be slaughtered.

Close-up of counters inside the slaughterhouse.  There are pipes and sinks, indicating it was a processing area.

Above is a collage I made of the slaughterhouse windows.

second wellhead

Inside the porch in the Medium Size house is the well head.

Work Shop Building - Tractor Repair

A previous owner had a tractor repair business on the property; I believe this was the main work shop where the work was done.  Note the railroad tracks across from the highway that are parallel to the property.

Well Head inside the well house

The wellhead is not capped.!!