This iron trap was probably used to catch fur-bearing animals such as beavers since it lacks the sharp iron teeth integral to the devices used to entrap wolves and bears. The trap was found around 1824, on Hoosac Mountain in the Berkshire Mountains, by Turner Potter and his father of Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Beaver Trap. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1889-09/. Accessed on November 23, 2024.
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