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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.
LSU Rural Life Museum, Baton Rouge; Vermilionville Cajun and Creole Folklife Park, Lafayette [19] Maine. Fort Western, Augusta; Maine Forest & Logging Museum, living history site known as Leonard's Mills, Bradley; Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Livermore; Willowbrook Museum Village, Newfield; Maryland. Button Farm Living History ...
Ohio Village is a living history museum in Columbus, Ohio, United States.It is operated by the non-profit Ohio History Connection.. The village, intended to provide a firsthand view of life in Ohio during the American Civil War, opened July 27, 1974, on 15 acres (61,000 m 2) adjacent to the Ohio History Center in north Columbus.
A "full deck" of logs awaiting the mill. A log pond is a small natural lake or reservoir used for storage of wooden logs in readiness for milling at a sawmill.Although some mill ponds served this purpose for water-powered sawmills, steam-powered sawmills used log ponds for transportation of logs near the mill; and did not require the elevation drop of watermill reservoirs.
The Visitor Center is the entrances to the site. The building includes multimedia forestry exhibits of the earliest recorded history to modern times, has sensory displays for children, a small theater showing "Fire in the Forest" (a film about the 1918 Cloquet and Moose Lake fire), and a museum store. [1]
[12] [25] As a result, the company relocated its logging operations to a new site, establishing the town of Hume, where they built a new logging complex including Hume Lake. [26] The company also extended the Sequoia Railroad to Hume Lake, adding two Shay locomotives and building a trestle over the water to a new log dump. [ 12 ]
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum is a non-profit historical museum located in Bradley, Maine. It was founded in 1960 to preserve the history of forestry and logging in the state. Leonard's Mills is the centerpiece of the 1790s living history site which is home to the only operational water wheel powered, up-and-down sawmill in Maine.
Scioto Lounge, or the Scioto Lounge deer sculptures, is a series of three bronze sculptures depicting anthropomorphic deer by Terry Allen, installed in Columbus, Ohio, United States. [1]