Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature

Once unattached to the earth men lifted these massive chunks of stone onto large horse pulled carts called ?gallamanders?. The gallamander was a kind of wagon with nine foot wheels made of oak with a lever attached to a rope tackle. From here the granite was moved to the cutting shed. Many of the building stones weighed several tons apiece, and much of the lifting and moving was done by hand. To have a team of men move a several ton piece of stone seems an impossible task but these men must have had muscles on their muscles because they did it.