The town of Galla Rock had 500 people beforethe Civil War. It was built on cotton and slave labor.
There were 4 community cisterns in the town.
I guess you took your bucket to the town cistern
and got water. All the cisterns but this one are
now under water in the Arkansas River. So I guess
the River has moved or widened. An old lady who
grew up here, wrote of the cisterns. She said you
could only use the water from the city cisterns in
months that had an r in them. So that is January,
February, March April, September, October,
November, and December. They tried putting
fish in the water to keep them pure. I guess they
ate the algae.
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Thank you for sharing this history about community cisterns. It sounds almost biblical, doesn't it. I can imagine women at the well.
As far as I know, there is only one house left in my town that has its own cistern. It's not in use, of course.
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