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Monday Morning Mystery 052118
This has been lying in the ditch along the path south of the Butterfly Garden for years.
Looks sort of like a gutter, but could it be an old watering trough from the Celery Farm's farm days.
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Jim,
A farmland draining tile, perhaps.
You may be able to confirm this by going to an Internet search engine, checking “drainage tile,” then looking at images.
— Joe Sapia
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Jim,
A farmland draining tile, perhaps.
You may be able to confirm this by going to an Internet search engine, checking “drainage tile,” then looking at images.
— Joe Sapia