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NSDHA is a club of 50+ members/families strong dedicated to the use of
draft horses and education of the public. We are located in Northern Minnesota. Our club members participate in
all facets of draft horse use, farming, logging, showing, historical reenactments and hay rides. Our club sponsers and
participates in clinics to educate the public about these magnificant horses. We have a farming field day
in the fall open to the public to watch the horses in action plowing, discing, cutting hay, raking along with the use of antique
farm machinery for thrashing and baling hay.
Our club participates yearly at the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The Forest History Center is
a logging camp from the days gone by when horse power was the only way to get the trees out of the woods.
There are live demonstrations of what life was like for the loggers. Horses are used to skid logs through an obstacle course,
simulating pulling a tree through the woods, and load them onto waiting sleighs to be brought down to the river
where they would have been floated down to the mills. The bunk house is open to see how these men lived when not
in the woods. The general store is full of authentic clothing and articles from the time. They also have black
smith shop and cook shack of the period. People there talk the same "lingo" as they would have back in
the good ole days. This is now a yearly event for us the last weekend in August. Come and join us.
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