Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
The Grand Lake Stream Dam is shown with an old company building at far right where tools and equipment were stored.
The low buildings facing the water were boathouses where guides or other boat owners could rent space from the town. A long building adjacent to the boathouses called "The Lockers" had storage spaces with individual doors where guides rented space from the town for their gear.
The piers showing over the top of the dam were used to tie the boom logs during the log driving days. Logs were boomed up or chained together to make a corral to contain logs, which would then be towed by a boat down the lake to the dam.
From there the logs were sluiced down the river, across Big Lake and Lewy Lake, to the West Branch of the St. Croix River, where they ended their journey in Woodland at the St. Croix Paper Company mill.
About This Item
- Title: Dam, Grand Lake Stream, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Grand Lake Stream, Washington County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.106336
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Dams--Maine--Grand Lake Stream
- Lumber industry--Maine--Grand Lake Stream
- Boathouses--Maine--Grand Lake Stream
- Logging--Maine--Grand Lake Stream
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