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Moving the Powell farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.
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Moving the Powell farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.
Transporting the Powell farm house across Eagle Creek. When W. Ross Thompson bought the farm home of Bill Powell (located 1 mile north of Eagle Creek) following the sale of the Powell land to the Hutterite colony, he moved it to his own farm, two miles south of town. The whole structure weighed 225 tons.
Three teams of horses hitched to a small frame house preparing to drag it on snow. Three men are holding the reins. Dog in front.
Several unidentified children sit on a Model T Ford truck parked in front of an old frame house (shack).
First United Church in Rosetown and manse. Photo by Ward Studios.
The Powell house raised up on blocks in preparation to move to its new location. The house was bought and moved by W. Ross Thompson in October of 1971.
Moving the Powell farm house through the Eagle Creek valley from its original location about 8 miles north of Eagle Creek to its present position, 2.5 miles south of Rosetown.
Man in buckboard, sod barn in background. Sunflowers growing in forefront.
The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.
The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.
The Powell house mid-move with members of its moving crew standing around it. W. Ross Thompson moved the house.
Herman Holler standing in front of wooden shack; barrels scattered, chimney pipe protruding from the roof. Prairie background. Wood branches in teepee stack in background.
White frame house and large barn on Peter Ritchie farm in 1920. Tractor has a Ritchie and McDonald engine, steel wheels, smokestack.
Family on ground in front of house with prairie background
Small 1 1/2 storey wooden house, painted or whitewashed, wooden outbuildings. Family of one older man, man and woman, four children of which three are teens; all seated on the grass.
Some of the excavation work behind the transport of the Powell house. Unclear if this is at the old or present location of the house.