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A logging camp (or lumber camp) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry. Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area. Many place names (e.g. Bockman Lumber Camp, Whitestone Logging Camp, Camp Douglas) are legacies of old ...
The company operated the camp until 1929. [7] In 1949 the Holt Lumber Company gave the camp to the Oconto Historical Society. The McCaslin Lions Club stabilized and restored the bunk house and cook house in the 1970s. [7] Today it is a museum, with the track of the company's old supply road still visible between the building and the brook. [5]
This camp was found located about 5 miles southeast of Old Roach. The 2008 field survey resulted in the finding of another satellite logging camp known as "Camp 3" located about 3 miles west of Old Roach. Another satellite camp known as East Beaver Creek was located and recorded during the 2009 field survey.
The camps were opened in 1874, bordering the West Branch of the Pleasant River in northern Maine in the United States. They included a main lodge and 13 cabins as well as satellite camps for housing loggers. The camps are a 2.2 mile hike from Gulf Hagas and a 5.2 mile hike from the Appalachian Trail's famed 100-Mile Wilderness.
Belcher Camp: Ferry: c. 1897 Bishop: Whitman: 1913 (post office established) 1925 (post office closed) Blewett [1] [5] Chelan: c. 1874 After 1905 Neglected Bodie [1] [5] Okanogan: 1886 1934 Neglected Bolster [5] Okanogan: 1899 After 1916 Bonita: Douglas: 1903 1927 Bordeaux: Thurston: 1890s 1941 Barren Logging town that had a post office by 1909.
The downtown Joseph museum aims to transport visitors to the working logging town via artifacts such as preserved railroad track, slice-of-life sketches and a Maxville Wildcats baseball uniform.
In 1884 the Northern Wisconsin Lumber Company bought the land that would become Forest Lodge, and by 1888 the company had built a logging camp there, on the south side of a bay of Lake Namekagon. Soon the timber was cut and in 1889 Crawford Livingston and some hunters and fishermen from Chicago leased the land around the camp as a hunting retreat.
Hundreds of police and soldiers raided illegal logging camps on the southern edge of Mexico City Wednesday and seized four illegal sawmills, sparking the anger of local residents. Prosecutors in ...