Watch this page for more interesting historical information as we continue to search our shoeboxes archives and shake the cobwebs out of our memories.

Added a few more pictures. Cleaned up the others. 10/31/97

See some interesting moving projects that we did in the past, along with some explanations on how early technology worked.

• Placing a monument in the Saratoga Battlefield in 1931.
• Moving a house on Thanksgiving Day, 1930.
• They use horses, don't they? What provided the power.
• Moving a church in 1948.
• Installing a knitting machine.
• An early motor home.

Some more interesting projects.

• Moving a boat.
• Not a pane was broken!
• Moving a historic gas station.
• He made every block himself.
• Olympic stunts.
• Ghost town.

Moving projects that show some of the things that we can do.

• Moving a brick house. Weight 275 tons.
• Raising a roof.
• Preparing for a new foundation.
• Moving 200 tons in Williamstown, MA.
• Moving a large commercial building.
• See what holds it up.
• Another big job.

thumnail.jpg Contact sheet of most of the pictures 88k (Updated 10/21/97 10:50 am)

Background images from the House Movers Supply Company catalog, circa 1912.

Updated 10/31/97 10:36 am