These days, Defiance is just about the closest thing eastern Missouri has to wine country. It's a very picturesque place, in fact, but it's also host to a whole lot of corn. And bugs.
Iceboxes would have been common in homes at the time, but springhouses were an old-fashioned, rural means of refrigeration. Usually they were small stone buildings constructed on top of running water, which kept the interior of the building cool. Here's a photo of one on the Daniel Boone property in Missouri.
Iceboxes would have been common in homes at the time, but springhouses were an old-fashioned, rural means of refrigeration. Usually they were small stone buildings constructed on top of running water, which kept the interior of the building cool. Here's a photo of one on the Daniel Boone property in Missouri.
