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Bookmark or Share- The Logging Industry (1900-1920) - Historic Toxaway FoundationLogging camps for these companies and others were soon established across the western forests, with first oxen, then horse teams and local trains moving massive logs, and many of the area towns prospered as a result. Life in the Logging Camps.
- Logging Industry - Minnesota Historical SocietyLogging was done in the winter, when dirt roads could be turned into ice roads in order to carry 20-ton sleighs to the river twice daily. The camps had two dozen horses that the lumberjacks harnessed to drag logs to landings and hoist them onto sleds.
- Logging camp - WikipediaA 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.
- Logging History - Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (U.S ... - NPSThe logging camps located in isolated areas of the region were self-contained communities. Normally, the camps consisted of an office, company store (operated part time only with sales charged against pay due), bunk house, mess hall and kitchen, blacksmith shop and barn.
- Lumberjack - WikipediaLumberjack. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
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