Richard: This particular barn is about 15 miles from the 49th parallel. Closest ND town is Ambrose. I guess they would have been same era construction.
Tom: You are quite right and no one needs to unceremoniously find the bottom of an old well. I have encountered a couple where a local farmer had recovered with new wood. During one summer, I came across an ice well that obviously still worked. The wooden cover had rotted out, some slats still in place but the rest dropped in. Snow was able to fill the hole and in the heat of a prairie summer, I could see a lot of ice down there. I imagine more than one deer had been stored in that walk in (well climb down) freezer during the Great Depression.
Cheers,
Jack
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