From the book, “Five Acres Too Much” by R. B. Roosevelt, 1869
…written near the end of the Civil War:
“The first necessity…was to have a churn, and to obtain this I stopped in at one of the numerous stores in and near Fulton Street, where agricultural implements are sold. I inquired falteringly if they had churns for sale, not being certain that these came under that designation, and a good deal confused at the mass of curious implements and wonderful pieces of mechanism which were scattered about….”
