This sheve wheel likely sat on top a mine head frame at one time and is now an object of interest in someones yard.
I drilled at a place called mill creek some years ago and there was a flooded shaft with a wooded head frame on it that this would be right at home with. There were lots of these glory holes about in the last century great depression era.
Today in History, January 26th 1992
Boris Yeltsin announces that the Soviets would no longer target American cities with nuclear weapons.















