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Archaeologists should bear in mind that structures did not necessarily stay put. Farmhouses, barns, and any outbuilding were moved when the need arose. Todd mentioned that he had moved a large barn about 150 feet in a day with one horse and four helpers and that in the city even more was being done:
³The art of moving buildings of all kinds has been so perfected, that in most of our large cities there are those who possess sufficient skill and machinery to move with safety, not only the heaviest wooden buildings, but those that are built of brick, and which are computed to weigh **three hundred tons**² (Todd 1860:48-49, italics ** original).
TODD, S. EDWARDS
1860 The Young Farmerıs Manual. The American News Company, New York.
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