Snow roller - Colebrook - New Hampshire
Posted by: gemeloj
N 44° 53.699 W 071° 29.831
19T E 302824 N 4974318
A beautiful old snow roller!
Waymark Code: WM10QYX
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 06/13/2019
Views: 4
Some communities decided that rolling the snow was an
easier and quicker way to maintain their roads rather than
trying to plow them. This led to the era of snow rollers
which were popular from the 1890’s to around 1918. The
devices were approximately 7 feet wide and about 11 to
12 feet tall. They were pulled by horses, oxen and in some
cases cattle. The rollers made walking and travel by sleight
easier but left a real mess in the spring as the compacted
snow was slow to melt and prone to pot holes which made
traveling extremely difficult. Several communities-Alexandria, Bartlett, Bow, Canaan, Colebrook, along with NHDOT
in Concord-have restored snow rollers on display.
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