As Maine communities began to lose some of their frontier aspects in the early nineteenth- century and assumed a more settled appearance, rudimentary civic improvements were initiated. Among these improvements in the largely agricultural world of rural Maine was the regulation of the livestock which were becoming numerous. To address this problem towns constructed shelters for the temporary control of wayward animals. The existence of 21 of these structures in Maine have been verified, and their condition varies from almost unrecognizable to good. Of the remaining structures, only the Charlotte Pound is built of logs rather than stone. Erected in 1872, the pound is octagonal in shape and is constructed of debarked cedar logs stacked on a large cobble stone foundation. The Charlotte Pound was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a good example of a 19th century log pound built by the town to regulate one specific aspect of its agricultural economy.