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Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania: Whining saws and squealing flanges
Author: Pennsylvania Lumber Museum
Author: Robert CurrinPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811729659
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A century ago, the forests of northcentral Pennsylvania provided white pine and hemlock timber for much of the United States, and the region boasted two of the world's largest sawmills.
Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania: Teddy Collins' empire
Author: Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania
Author: Along the Bucktail Highway
Author: Charles E. WilliamsPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738555232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Bucktail Highway, Pennsylvania Route 120, traverses over 100 miles of the commonwealth's historic northern tier, linking Ridgway in the west with Lock Haven in the east. The Bucktail Highway crosses the eastern continental divide east of St. Marys and closely follows the picturesque, deep valleys carved by Sinnemahoning Creek and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Originally a Native American path and later a road that carried settlers west beyond the Allegheny Front, today's Bucktail Highway is a centerpiece of the Pennsylvania Wilds, a public-private initiative to promote and conserve the unique natural and historic resources of the region. Along the Bucktail Highway showcases over 200 vintage postcards profiling the cultural and natural history of the towns, forests, and waters linked by this scenic route from its beginnings as a westward trail, its growth as a commercial and industrial corridor in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and its recent emergence as a premier Pennsylvania scenic byway.
Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
Author: Ronald E. OstmanPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108460X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Pennsylvania-- Transportation
Author: Eugene Willard MillerPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Year's Work in Pennsylvania Studies
Author: Williamsport -- Lumber Capital
Author: Thomas Townsend TaberPublisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Steam & Thunder in the Timber
Author: Michael KochPublisher: Denver : World Press
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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