Mr Fox Moving

Friday Fun Moving Facts!
Moving in the 19th Century consisted of wagons, stage coaches, horses, and people hired movers!
Julia Wilbur specifically wrote about hiring cart men to move her belongings from one boarding house to another in Washington. They did not operate moving companies as we know them, but were men who had a wagon or three with which they could offer their labor and transport. Usually her places were furnished, but there were trunks of clothes and keepsakes to transfer from one place to another.

People who moved out west had the covered wagons to move their essentials. But people who moved from city to city had to sell as many of their belongings as they could. Either way, people often sold items in their old places (often a loss) and then had to start anew.

Check out this picture of people using horses and pulleys to move this whole house!

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