- UNIQ1.004
- Pièce
- 1971
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
Moving the Powell farm house with basement intact across the Eagle Creek bridge. This was the most difficult part of the journey.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
Moving the Powell farm house with basement intact across the Eagle Creek bridge. This was the most difficult part of the journey.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
The Powell farm house approaching the Eagle Creek bridge.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
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.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
Front view of the Powell house as it sits lifted up and ready to move.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.
Family on ground in front of house with prairie background
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
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.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
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.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
The Powell house with basement intact, lifted up on blocks and ready to go on the trailer for transport. The structure weighed 225 tons and up until this point, a house with basement intact had not been moved whole before.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
Getting the Powell house onto a semi trailer for transport.
Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection
The tires of the semi trailer carrying the Powell house sinking into dirt under the 225 ton weight of the house.