As I was having fun playing with the backhoe last week, I ran across this pipe. it is about 8 inches away from the back of the kitchen wall. It seems firmly rooted in the ground, which makes me think that it is attached to something deeper down. We were told that the kitchen sink drained into a barrel that is buried somewhere in the backyard (presumably close to the house). Is it possible that this is an air vent for the barrel?
My other thought is that possibly it goes down to a well that was used before the town hooked up water. I'm not sure when Cornish provided town water for everyone, but I am fairly certain it wasn't 91 years ago. The original owners of the house must have had a well. Could this pipe have been attached to a hand pump? Considering it is just outside the kitchen, it would have been handy to step out to get water. The scary part of that idea is that is is only a few (10ish) feet from the current outhouse. Not a pleasant thought. However, if the original outhouse had been further out in the backyard (a safer distance away from the water source), then when the occupants of the house switched over to town water, they could have moved the outhouse closer.
