Contributed by Joyce Carle through Princeton Public Library
Description
This photograph shows boom logs that were piled up on the remote shore of Clifford Lake in what is now Greenlaw Chopping Township, formerly Township 27 ED. The boom chains are visible on the ends of some of the logs. This photo was taken in the 1950s.
Shortly after the first settlers arrived in Princeton, mills were built along the waterway that flows from Big Lake through to the St. Croix River. Using a series of dams to hold the water until needed, the logs were floated downstream to the mills. Near the point of entry into the waters of a lake, the logs were gathered by a series of logs chained end to end into a long "boom."
Boom logs were sometimes attached to boats which hauled the logs to the outlet where the rushing waters, aided by skilled men called “river drivers”, rushed the logs to the next lake where they were gathered again by boom logs. Sometimes boom logs were used to guide the floating logs or pulpwood, or other times the boom logs were used to contain the logs in the water near a mill.
About This Item
- Title: Boom Logs, Greenlaw Chopping Township, ca. 1955
- Creator: Rev. Sidney King
- Creation Date: circa 1955
- Subject Date: circa 1955
- Location: Township 27 ED, Greenlaw Chopping Twp, Washington County, ME
- Media: Slide
- Dimensions: 2.5 cm x 3.5 cm
- Local Code: PL64 JCC3
- Object Type: Image
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