Trees
Farms
Fences and Walls
Mills
Cnalas
Roads
Wodoen Roads
Covered Bridges
Sleds
Turnpikes
Bicycles
Road Signs
Inns
Country Churches
A Little Gallery of Sketches from the Vanishing Landscape
Glossary
- early landscape
- pattern
- texture
- well-seasoned wood
- lanes
- vaulting canopies of trees
- patchwork quilt
- farm plots
- stone fences
- improvements
- inherited landscape
- billboards
- roadside stands
- bungalows
- growing countryside
- American scenery
- rot
- disappear
- pattern of organized confusion
- sewers
- paved streets
- supermarkets
- shopping centers
- homes
- supermarkets
- shopping centers
- white villages
- taste
- persistence to stay as it was
- villages
- landmarks
- Americana
- early American landscape
- nostalgic evoking of the past
- restorations
- curious and obsolete
- early design
- architectural relic
- restored Early American village
- primitive deisgn
- concrete superhighway
- superhighway
- mirror of the past
- present
- trees
- skyscraper
- tree
- forest
- IRon Age
- Wood Age
- charcoal
- smelting fuel
- romantic era
- statuary
- groves
- lumber
- proper seasoning
- men who knew wood
- old-timers
- first-growth timber
- humus
- peat
- natural rot
- age-old forests
- grain
- flintlike texture
- second growth
- third growth
- strength
- longevity
- oldest farmhouses
- farm homesite
- forest trees
- first-growth trees
- surveying records
- markers
- monuments
- farmhouse giants
- ax
- old-forest trees
- forest trees
- California’s Redwoods
- Redwoods
- black walnut tree
- cords of wood
- inch boards
- bark
- grocery store
- canal
- celebrated trees
- oldest fruit tree in America
- Stuyvesant Pear Tree
- wagons
- buckeye tree
- chestnut
- cut lumber
- wormy chestnut
- wormholesbarn-building
- house-siding
- tannin
- chestnut orchards
- chestnut blight
- oriental plants
- abandoned farmhouses
- elm
- rural landscape
- deep forests
- artists
- photographers
- ancient farmhouse
- first-growth tree
- vanishing landscape
- farms
- functional
- basic
- traditional
- modern art
- skyscraper
- old covered bridge
- oil station
- ancient grist-mill
- American culture
- gravel-pits
- factories
- billboards
- layman
- farmers
- farm living
- rural life
- holiday
- Sundays
- Holy Days
- home
- foundations
- barn
- rail fence
- ten generations
- stone walls
- American farmers
- blacksmith
- butcher
- carpenter
- politician
- banker
- farmer
- gentleman farmer
- plow
- stone wall
- city men
- rustic past
- ox-yokes
- butter-churns
- foot-warmers
- antiquarians
- attic-cleaning
- trade marks
- modernized
- industrialist
- barns
- outbuildings
- informal grouping
- obsolete structures
- well-restored farmstead
- sheds
- outbuildings
- smaller barn
- spring house
- icehouse
- milk house
- woodshed
- blacksmith shop
- carriage shed
- privy
- chicken houses
- geometric shapes
- contours
- scattered
- rambled
- jined
- joined architecture
- rambled
- modern farms
- commercial farms
- pasture
- real estate development
- home life
- American farmhouse
- imitation split shingles
- old-style hardware
- decorative shutters
- proportions
- lines
- overhanging roof
- old style
- ranch house
- air-conditioned
- Spanish colonail
- one-floored
- adobe farmhouses
- butchering shed
- wash-house
- wellhouse
- dove cote
- split-level chicken houses
- hen house
- prevailing wind
- rain-drainage
- contour of the land
- proximity to the farmhouse
- ground cellar
- smoke house
- summer kitchen
- butchering shed
- woodshed
- spring house
- wash house
- slant of roof
- outbuildings
- farm-outhousen
- classic privy
- crescent cut into doors
- southern plantations
- statuary
- Greek Revival privies
- plantation house
- ground cellars
- root cellars
- kitchen refrigerators
- air-conditioning
- atomic-bomb shelters
- pantry
- store-place for food
- dirt floors
- foundation-room
- pantry stores
- cellar door
- icehouses
- ice-storage room
- ice-making machinery
- ice tongs
- antique shops
- wooden iceboxes
- record-player cabinets
- spring house
- well
- shallow well
- mechanical pumps
- brook
- brooks
- brooks are disappearing
- valley
- streams
- highways
- swimming holes
- mill ponds
- creeks
- hay-loft
- outbuildings
- haystacks
- automatic baler
- hay-wagon
- Louisiana Classic
- log-cabin
- plantation roads
- log wagon-sheds
- log corncribs
- log barns
- American log cabin
- saddle-notched
- split log house
- chinked with waddle
- square notched
- flat-hewn dove-tail
- dove-tail
- square-notched
- square-hewn logs
- chink-slabs
- hooded log cabin roofs
- mud-and-sticks chimneys
- log churches
- log schoolhouse
- log cabins
- colonial esttlements
- English
- Dutch
- New England log cabins
- saddle
- southern log cabin
- stone walls
- stone fences
- briars
- birch
- juniper
- New England cross-and-rail
- Virginia stake-and-rail
- Virginia snake fence
- bored
- chiselled
- post and rail
- hemlock
- hedges
- enclosures
- hedgerows
- ditches
- locust
- cedar
- wire fencing
- fence-viewer
- Gunter’s Chain
- acreage
- fence mileage
- city block
- telegraph poles
- canal-way
- highway grant
- Broad Ways
- rods
- poles
- perches
- quarter-chain
- acre
- zigzag stone fence
- creosote
- high-post gate
- stone gate-posts
- New England slide rail gate
- horse shoes
- adjustable tie-slat gate
- weight
- stone box gate
- suspended gate
- creosote
- hitching-posts
- farm gates
- millstones
- Ohio fence ax
- wooden mills
- dressed
- furrows
- the land
- Pennsylvania barn hex design
- water-powered mills
- American windmill
- case
- hoop
- balance rynd
- runner
- run of stones
- bed-stone
- netherstone
- cross-section
- millstone dresses
- water-mills
- miller
- pounder
- tree joint
- tree stump
- sapling mill
- scoop
- plumping mill
- round millstone
- quern
- quern mill
- powered millstones
- horse-powered millstone
- gasoline stations
- axes
- salt
- barrel-staves
- hats
- pottery
- bone-meal
- calico-printing
- beating mills
- sweep-and-mortar mills
- mortar
- flour
- linseed oil
- cider
- salt
- lumber
- flax
- plaster
- tobacco
- paint
- grain
- resin
- down river
- old mill roads
- sawmill
- wind-powered sawmill
- windmills
- evaporating vats
Source Citation
Sloane, Eric. Our Vanishing Landscape. New York, New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1955.