This is a lime kiln in Massacre Canyon in 1908. This is near where I live and I sent a copy to a historian who speaks fluent German and he said it appears to possibly be a Scandanavian language. Since we have members in the Tavern from all the Scandanavion countries (even though most haven't been around for a while), I'm hoping that someone can translate the wording along the bottom of the card.

It's not just the picture that is ca1908, but the whole card is from that time...

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.



Here is a photo that I took of the same structure in 1992. My two sons are at the upper right of the ovens and they are about 11 and 7 respectively. The woman in the red coat is my (now ex) wife... The ovens face out to a creek bed that runs in front of them ONLY during heave rainfall now. A heavy flow, nonetheless.

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I and my children have been up that canyon many, many times as that is one of the places that I took them to start their firearms training.

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That handwriting is really hard to read, but judging by some of the letters I can make out, it seems to be Swedish. I don't know Swedish but I'm pretty sure "godt" is "good". I can't read any of the other words well enough to make any guesses though.

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It's signed "Augusta". Presumably a female name. I suspect the writing is something innocuous like "we visited here today and it was good" or some such.

"i hast" is "in haste"

I see in 1992 at least one row of stones, maybe two have been stolen off the top of the lime kilns.

quote:

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Wi ano (?) annu man ach hadar ach drinken (?) wallen, ach mai godt, i hast,

augusta

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The ground level has come up a bit and the 'hump' atop the structure is gone, but otherwise it is the same, I believe. Seems to be five layers of stonework. Roughly the same in the early photo.

Not shown in the 1992 photo are the smaller ovens that open out to the sides, apparently an upgrade from the original...

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There are lime kilns like that all over Britain, some date back to the 1500s but most are Victorian or early 1800s. The lime burning industry boomed with the advent of cheap coal as a fuel.

Here are some really serious ones at Ambergate, near Crich, Northamptonshire.

http://www.crichparish.co.uk/webpages/limekilns.html

They come in all shapes and sizes and because we Brits take great pride in the industrial revolution which began in the west midlands, Cornwall, Newcastle and South Wales, many are preserved as ancient monuments so you never see them defaced with graffiti like your example.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lime+k...FiZ8r59FbyWM%3A

Quicklime was used in mortars in the building industry and of course as a fertilizer for agriculture. Its widespread use allowed the farming revolution in Britain to became firmly established leading to significant population growth in the 1800s.

/history lesson

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"An old man like me stands no chance fighting against a high school girl in her underwear" - Oshino Meme, Nekomonogatari (Kuro)

Un fortunately, we have jackasses over here who think everyone wants to see some token of THEIR existance in this workd... I'd rather heat them up in a kiln... lol

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