Outhouse

In early Northville, outhouses with pit toilets were common. If properly constructed, normal bacterial action would eventually make waste harmless, and if properly vented, odors would be controlled. Outhouses, also called privies, were often used to toss out trash. Today, archaeologists can find artifacts in this trash—bottles, meat bones, broken toys—that are clues to how people lived in the past.

Northville, Michigan · United States