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Minnesota, to her nephew Georgic --son of George and Elisa Knapp in <br />Dummerston, Vermont, November 29, 1874) <br />"Frank has been gone 4 weeks and we last heard from him in Cresco, Iowa.... <br />While Frank is gone we have a good hired man who does all the chores and <br />we do not have to attend to anything out." (Maria H. Knapp, Lake Fremont, <br />Sherburne County, Minnesota, to Elisa, Susie, and Georgie Knapp in <br />Dummerston, Vermont, February 7, 1875) <br />"Frank is away on business most of the time so I am all alone days and some <br />nights. He has decided to travel longer so he has sold more than half his cows <br />and rented his farm for a year...." (Maria H. Knapp, Lake Fremont, Sherburne <br />County, Minnesota, to her sister-in-law Elisa Knapp in Dummerston, <br />Vermont, September 26, 1875) <br />"Frank has been hauling logs in the pinery with his team this winter, 3 horses, <br />$50 per month with good board for self and team." (Maria H. Knapp, Lake <br />Fremont, Sherburne County, Minnesota, to her sister-in-law Elisa Knapp in <br />Dummerston, Vermont, March 19, 1882) <br />Notices in local newspapers tracked the departure and return of farmers working in the <br />pineries during the winter. <br />From Orrock--"Ludwig and Anton Larson and August Anderson have gone <br />to the pineries for the winter." (Sherburne County Star News January 31,1895) <br />From Zimmerman —"Win Heath has gone up into the pineries on a visit." <br />(Sherburne County Star News February 7, 1895) <br />From Elk River --"Ross Bither was called home from the woods by the <br />sickness of his wife and mother...." (Sherburne County Star News February 7, <br />1895) <br />From Elk River --"Orlando Brown, Frank and Charley Brown shipped for the <br />woods Friday, taking with them 12 horses. They will haul for the Nickersons." <br />(Sherburne County Star News February 7, 1895) <br />By 1910 lumbering was on the decline, as noted by the Sherburne County Star News on April <br />21, 1910, and Sherburne County men would soon have to find a new source of second <br />income. <br />Use information from oral interviews <br />Arnold Engstrom started an egg route in the Twin Cities in 1944. (Can we get more <br />information on this?) <br />Sherburne County Historical Society Heritage Center Interpretive Plan, April 21, 2005, page 87 <br />