While tromping through one of our pastures with our contractor, David Travis, looking for things for a gate I'm having made and things for the summer kitchen, look what we found! I researched both (research might be a stretch, but did find info on the Internet), and learned that the plow is called a "Single Sulky Plow" and could have been pulled by either a mule or a tractor. It is probably from the early 20th century. David pulled it up with a Bobcat and we will probably put it at the opening of our upper hay field. The sewing machine still had a legible plaque on it and it is a Singer. It says, "Singer Manufacturing Company" which dates the machine from sometime after 1865, again could be late 19th or early 20th century. It was a treadle machine, meaning that it was connected with a belt to a floor pedal that was pressed by the seamstress which in turn moved the needle up and down. Tooooo much fun these things we are finding!!!!
