Difference between a cellar hole and a furnace?

[gopher]

Dear Fellow Lovers of the PBs,

Can someone please explain to me the difference between a cellar hole and a furnace? I went to Frienship this weekend and think I was seeing cellar holes, but was I? I was walking in these pits about 4 feet deep...if they are cellar holes, what's a furnace look like and where can I see one?

Thanks,

Gopher

 

[woodjin]

Welcome aboard!
Yes, those were celler holes at Friendship. A furnance looks like a huge chimney. There are not many still standing. The furnance at Weymouth is probably the best preserved furnance I can think of!

Jeff

 

[Ben Ruset]

Jeff nailed it.

A cellar hole is the remains of a building that had a basement.

The furnace stack at Allaire is also pretty well preserved.

 

[gopher]

Ok, thanks fellas. So the cellar holes are the remains from residence, not buildings? Can they be from both? Do we know what the ones from Friendship are from?

Thanks again--

GOPHER

 

[Ben Ruset]

Ok, thanks fellas. So the cellar holes are the remains from residence, not buildings? Can they be from both? Do we know what the ones from Friendship are from?

Thanks again--

GOPHER

They can be residences, shops, taverns -- whatever building was there.

The majority of the cellar holes at Friendship were houses. The large cellar hole on the edge of the field was the cranberry packing house.