Vintage logging – Sawmills

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about saw mills in the late 1800’s.

1880 Richardson’s Mill, Placer County.

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1882 Hall Brothers Ship yard.

1882 Port Gamble, WA.

1882 Puget Mill Co. sawmill and log pond

Near Snohomish, WA.

In the 1870s, thick forests covered the shores of Lake Washington, east of Seattle. As logs were cut, they were floated to small sawmills like this one and cut into lumber, which was used to build the growing city.

Shows a saw mill on a river.

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Shakan (originally spelled Chican) Village, Kosciusko Island, Alaska.

1888 Ship building at Leamy and Kyle Sawmill, False Creek, BC Canada.