Cypress Cistern

I find  cypress wood cisterns a fasinating bit of Americana.  These cisterns were used(mostly prior to 1950) in two basic ways. Some stored water pumped up out of the ground by windmill and some were storage for rainwater that ran into them from a gutter system on a house or barn.  I have in mind to find an old cistern that I can purchase, move it to our backyard and restore it to collect rainwater from a yet to be built gutter system on my workshop.   The search continues...............

Near Bracken, Texas

Near Solms, Texas