Contributed by Greater Rumford Area Historical Society
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Description
Workers build a boom pier on the Androscoggin in the winter of 1893. Boom piers were constructed to separate logs that were being floated downriver to go to the different mills. A ramp and a block-and-tackle is pictured on this pier. The equipment was used to pull up a box of rocks on a sled up to the top of the pier. The rocks were then loaded inside the pier for ballast.
About This Item
- Title: Building a boom pier on the Androscoggin River, Rumford, 1893
- Creator: Charles A. Mixer
- Creation Date: 1893
- Subject Date: 1893
- Location: Rumford, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.383 cm x 19.685 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Construction--Maine--Rumford
- Rivers--Maine--Rumford
- Piers & wharves--Maine--Rumford
- People--Maine--Rumford
- Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)
- Lumber industry--Maine--Rumford
- Equipment--Maine--Rumford
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Greater Rumford Area Historical Society145 Congress Street, Rumford, ME 04276
(207) 364-2540
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