Lanterns to light the way
These lanterns were used by my grandfather in the early 1900s to put on fence posts he had placed down the the middle of the dirt road that ran along a quarter mile of our farm.
The lanterns were placed every night at dusk so horses and buggies going by would see the fence in the middle of the road.
Bill Umscheid , Wake Forest
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This story was originally published November 13, 2015 at 1:40 AM with the headline "Lanterns to light the way."