Welcome to The Scarecrow's guided tour Inside the Artesian Well Pump House.

The large horizontal wheel was turned by a donkey. The vertical wooden teeth individually driven into this large wheel engage the much smaller metal wheel you can see on the left.

There is a small wooden flight of stairs leading to the first floor. This is now empty but used to store food for the donkey.

Two close ups of the vertical metal driven wheel. This wheel drives a crank shaft operating two rods descending to the water pump bellows 79 feet below. At about 40 feet down there are horizontal shafts complete with its own family of bats.

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