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Description
Loggers and lumbermen stand at Pishon's Ferry in Clinton, surrounded by their work.
This view shows the huge number of logs that were floated down the Kennebec River, the major method of getting lumber from the woods to the mills.
Because so many owners moved their lumber on the river, each owner branded their logs for identification. Much of the wood out of the Clinton area in the 1880s and 1890s went to a mill in Benton.
About This Item
- Title: Pishon's Ferry, Clinton, ca. 1900
- Creator: J. Bachelder
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Clinton, Kennebec County, ME
- Media: Stereograph
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 797, C:Misc.
- Collection: Stereo view cards of Maine towns and scenes
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Kennebec River (Me.)--Stereographs
- Logging industry--Maine--Clinton--Stereographs
- Lumbermen--Maine
- Pishon's Ferry (Clinton, Me.)--Stereographs
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