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im 60 now and remember my grandma telling me they had dirt floors and they would turn to a solid almost like marble surface from walking and living on them
Yes, I visited the house my grandmother was born in, and it had dirt floors, but they were very hard. My ex told me: It's dirt. I was shocked!!
Thats really cool. It's too cold where I for dirt floors but I'm guessing it's the pressure that hardened them like turning carbon into diamonds.
My grandparents on my mom's side did have an outhouse and we did use it.
Can confirm. I've walked on a dirt floor that was hard as rock, and nearly as smooth as glass. No dust on it either. The dirt apparently had a high clay content in it (guessing by look, feel, and texture) and after years of being walked on like that, it looked and felt like walking on a smooth ceramic surface.
(Edit). On a side note, I've also seen house walls made of mud that are still in perfectly good shape to this day, nearly 200 years after the house was built. Pretty amazing to see.