Turner Cattle Pound, 1816 - Turner, Androscoggin County
The Turner Cattle Pound is a well-preserved example of a once common feature in early Maine agricultural communities. Many of Maine's inland communities were agricultural settlements, embracing a more privatized model of land ownership and grazing in comparison to the publicly-held "town common" model that was more prevalent in Massachusetts. Nevertheless, in both agricultural models cattle and other livestock often wandered from their owners and communities needed dedicated places to detain these animals until their owners could retrieve them.