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The coniferous forest in the Oxtongue River valley is inhabited by various bird species, such as black-backed woodpecker, winter wren, northern saw-whet owl, boreal chickadee, spruce grouse, and various warbler species (including northern parula). [7] The river is controlled by four dams, at Burnt Island, Joe Lake, Tea Lake, and Ragged Lake.
The village of Mowat on the west side of Canoe Lake was first established in 1893 as a logging camp for the Gilmour Lumber Company. From there, logs were driven down the Oxtongue River towards Lake of Bays and eventually on to Trenton. In the same year the park headquarters was established near the logging camp.
Log building built in 1880, with cookhouse and bunkhouse - possibly the oldest logging camp in the U.S. standing on its original site. Now a museum. [14] [15] 11: Holt-Balcom Lumber Company Office: Holt-Balcom Lumber Company Office: November 13, 1976 : 106 Superior Ave.
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Collier Memorial State Park is a state park in southern Oregon.The park is operated and maintained by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.It is located on U.S. Highway 97, approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Klamath Falls and 105 miles (169 km) south of Bend.
Workers milling logs in the steam-powered sawmill, during the Great Oregon Steam-Up of 2006. The signature event at Powerland Heritage Park is the Great Oregon Steam-Up, an event held each year during mid-summer (end of July and beginning of August) when many of the exhibits, normally displayed in a non-operational state, are fired up and shown running.
Like most lumber barons, Gilmour and Company received most of its product from the northern timber limits of what is now the Algonquin Park region. The trees would be felled in the forests by men living in work camps, then floated down the regional waterways of the Kawartha lake region to their final destination; the Gilmour Mill along the Trent River, at the mouth of the Bay of Quinte.
They built splash dams on the brook, [4] and built the logging camp that is the subject of this article on a rise about 80 feet from the brook. Now the camp looks out across the very domestic McCaslin Brook Golf and Country Club, but in the 1880s it would have been surrounded by wilderness - tall trees and brush.