Food history talks are listed at the end.
Historic Ephrata Cloister kitchen, 1740s-50s HERE
Eleven feet three inches of Yorkshire stone sink, six inches thick .... Forty-six feet five inches of one and a quarter inch milled slate skirting, fixed with cramps, and set in cement ....... Ten feet two inches of lineal rounded
Loudon, John Claudius. An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture. London: 1835 HERE
1855
Sink. – To provide and fix in the scullery a tooled stone sink, two feet by twenty inches, and six inches deep, properly dished out, and having a hole cut to receive a brass bell trap. The sink to be let into the walls of the window breast and elbows, and its remaining portion supported on a half brick wall. (The sink may be of galvanized iron, or of glazed stoneware). Plumber… To provide a cistern, three feet long by two feet wide, and two feet deep, of one and a half inch thick deal, dovetailed and strengthened at the angles, and lines with six lb. lead. The cistern to be fitted up in the cullery as shall be directed, and supported on proper bearers. To provide for the cistern, feet, of one half inch supply pipe and ball tap, and feet of one-inch waste pipe, carried to the drain. To lay, from the cistern to the sink in the kitchen window, one half inch supply pipe, with a brass bib cock, and a similar pipe and cock to the water-closet tank.
Morton, John Chalmers. A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific. Glasgow, London: 1855 v1. Page 564
Ephrata Cloister upstairs
This court case described the corner set up and piping of stone sink by Hiram Cobb. When he died his son was given the property, and his daughter got the "household furniture." She sold the sink and it was removed. The Mass. Supreme Court declared the heavy stone sink was part of the house.
"A stone sink, weighing two hundred or two hundred and fifty pounds, set, by the owner of a dwelling-house, [twenty-five or thirty years ago c1840] closely against the walls, in a corner of one of the rooms, in a frame, under the spout of a wooden pump connected with a cistern of water below, (which pump soon afterwards was removed,) was used for washing dishes and other appropriate domes- tic work; the waste water being conducted from one end of it, by a lead pipe, through the side of the house, into a drain, until the pipe wore out, and being afterwards dipped out, or drawn off through a hole fitted with a stopple. Held, that it was not severed from the freehold by the removal of the pump and decay of the pipe, no change being made otherwise in its position or use; and passed to the heir as against the administrator, on the death of the owner of the freehold, intestate. TORT for the conversion of a stone sink."
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v.99. 1868. HERE
The Woodlands, built by William Hamilton (1745-1813) in 1780s Philadelphia, has a stone sink in the basement. HABS drawing and photo
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