Klamath Heritage: Road Construction

Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for March 31, 2019, shows a crew of workmen using horse-drawn scrapers to level a roadbed. Before the advent of machinery powered by engines, scrapers such as these were used for leveling ground in various types of construction projects.

Most of the A Canal in Klamath Falls was built the same way. 

Road Construction, c. 1900

The Museum welcomes suggestions on where this photo might have been taken. The hill in the background at right is our only clue.

The handwritten number in the lower right corner lets us know the picture was taken by Maud Baldwin, a woman photographer who worked in Klamath Falls in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Press release provided from the Klamath County Museum.