Two Percherons and 83 pounds of harness I'm old enough to remember at least one horse-drawn vehicle on the streets of Detroit: Joe's Vegetable cart used to stop at our house every week. I have no idea what kind of vegetables Joe sold. I only remember the horse. Now that I'm living upstate near a small town, horses are back on the highways again pulling Amish rigs. I have it on good authority that the Amish are buying up the local farms and making a go of them with horse-power, after the more mechanized farmers went out of business. Perhaps we... more info
Four Feet in History In the days before motorized vehicles and tractors, city businesses and rural farms were powered by horses. Draft Horses, Light Horses and everything in between were harnessed to the plow, express wagons (think UPS with horses) and even houses. Charles ("Chappie") Fox sheds a spotlight on all aspects of the horses of yesteryear; from the building of the vehicles, the equipment and stables, to the hitches used for advertising to the circus, farm and fire horses. Take a nostalgic look back or discover a... more info
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