Sorry for writing so much. It started small and turned into a big thing. :P

Let's see. At the time there was my family, my uncle's family, my grandparents, the hired hand's family, and the old folks up the road. So 5 inhabited houses, with hmm, 20 people (the hired hand had a /lot/ of kids, lol).

Maybe 6 houses and 21 people. I can't remember if the one guy was living here then or not. But yeah, something around that number.

That is a nice looking pump. I was thinking of one like this for my well: https://www.lehmans.com/p-2452-green-hand-cistern-pump.aspx Inexpensive (at least compared to the deep well pumps lol), but they only work on fairly shallow wells and they freeze in the winter and have to be thawed out with hot water. But I am having a hard time talking myself into paying $300 for a deep-well pump instead of $50 for a hand pump I won't use very often, just to keep it from freezing.

I have read about making pumps out of PVC pipe, so I may try that. But then I'd have to fence it off then to keep the cattle from rubbing all over and breaking it. And it would be ugly too, hehe.

Although with the cheaper pump, I bet I could unscrew the pump head and keep it inside the house to keep it from freezing, and keep a cap screwed onto the pipe sticking out of the well cap. Hmmmmmmmmm.......