Contributed by Greater Rumford Area Historical Society
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Description
This image shows a crew building the boom pier on the Androscoggin River, above the upper dam in East Rumford.
Boom piers were constructed to separate logs that were being floated down a river to go to the different mills along the Androscoggin river.
About This Item
- Title: Boom pier construction, Rumford, 1893
- Creator: Rumford Falls Power Company
- Creation Date: 1893
- Subject Date: 1893
- Location: Rumford Area Historical Society, Rumford, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 20.32 cm
- Collection: Rumford Falls Power Company Photographic Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- People associated with manual labor--Maine--Rumford
- laborers--Maine--Rumford
- Lumber industry--Maine--Rumford
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Greater Rumford Area Historical Society145 Congress Street, Rumford, ME 04276
(207) 364-2540
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