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Grist and saw mills on the Upper Falls, Rumford, ca. 1895

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The booms were used to channel the logs (keeping them together) down the river to the mills. The spikes anchored the logs or timbers together in the…"