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    This document summarizes information about a cattle pound located in East Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine. The circular stone structure was built in 1829 by Silas Noyes and remains in good condition. It has walls that are six feet high and five feet thick at the base, tapering to three feet thick at the top. Cattle pounds like this were historically used by towns to temporarily hold stray or seized livestock. Pound keepers were responsible for feeding and caring for impounded animals and could charge owners fees.

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    This document summarizes information about a cattle pound located in East Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine. The circular stone structure was built in 1829 by Silas Noyes and remains in good condition. It has walls that are six feet high and five feet thick at the base, tapering to three feet thick at the top. Cattle pounds like this were historically used by towns to temporarily hold stray or seized livestock. Pound keepers were responsible for feeding and caring for impounded animals and could charge owners fees.

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    This document summarizes information about a cattle pound located in East Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine. The circular stone structure was built in 1829 by Silas Noyes and remains in good condition. It has walls that are six feet high and five feet thick at the base, tapering to three feet thick at the top. Cattle pounds like this were historically used by towns to temporarily hold stray or seized livestock. Pound keepers were responsible for feeding and caring for impounded animals and could charge owners fees.

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    This document summarizes information about a cattle pound located in East Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine. The circular stone structure was built in 1829 by Silas Noyes and remains in good condition. It has walls that are six feet high and five feet thick at the base, tapering to three feet thick at the top. Cattle pounds like this were historically used by towns to temporarily hold stray or seized livestock. Pound keepers were responsible for feeding and caring for impounded animals and could charge owners fees.

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    Bast Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine


    Owner
    Town of Jefferson

    1829
    Builder
    Silas XToyes
    Present Condition
    As the pound is built entirely of stone, there is
    little to deteriorate. Hence, it appears easy to
    determine how it was originally.
    Description
    A circular enclosure about forty feet in diameter,
    built entirely of field stone with an entrance gate
    five feet wide surmounted by a massive stone lintel.
    The walls of the pound are six feet high5 five feet
    thick at 'the base. The inside of -the wall is nearly
    vertical but the outside batters so chat the thickness
    of the wall at the top is about three feet. This
    enclosure is built on lend now wooded. There is no
    evidence of any shelter.
    Other Sxisting .Records
    Brief Article called "Jefferson Pound" published in the
    Bortland Press Herald, October 4, 1936.
    Additional Data
    Cattle pounds similar to this one but commonly built of
    wood were owned by all the towns in early times. The
    pounds were enclosures in which cattle or other domestic
    animals which had strayed, trespassed, or had been seised
    bv letral process, were kept.
    The pound keeper was obliged to receive everything offered
    for his custody but was not answer&ble for any stock
    illegally impounded.

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    could charge the owners of ani/aals for feed. In case
    animals were riot fed for twelve hours, any person
    could feed them and collect from, the o\,n.ar.
    The pound keeper was one of the officials of the town
    elected at town meetings.
    The builder* of this pound, Silas hoyes, is aaid to
    have received werrty-ei^ht dollars for his work,*the setting of over one hundred ninety tons of rock
    at about fourteen cents a ton.
    The pound is located on the road between Jefferson
    and "Jaidocoro on Route /?20

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