Explore: Booms (log Transportation)

downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe and North America. When the first sawmills

for water-powered sawmills, steam-powered sawmills used log ponds for transportation of logs near the mill; and did not require the elevation drop of

Croix Log Boom used a series of booms—logs chained end-to-end across the river—to catch timber as it floated downstream. Workers called "boom rats" moved

lorries, H.M.S.O. "A History of Timber: Logging Trucks and Early Timber Transportation". TimberPlus. "The Washington Log Trucking Industry: Costs and Safety

that became known as Boulder Junction. While the railroad served the booming logging industry, it also attracted outdoors enthusiasts who came to fish and

of Log booms built after the locks on the dams were washed away as the Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District. The log booms helped

Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District is a national historic district and historic archaeological site located on the Coal River

dams to reclaim land. This ended use of the rivers by steamboats and log booms. In December 1951, high tides up the Nicomekl and Serpentine rivers combined

The Susquehanna Boom was a system of cribs and chained logs in the West Branch Susquehanna River, designed to catch and hold floating timber until it

active from 1900 to about 1915. Abandoned, it was re-established as a logging camp in the 1950s; it now has a population of about 100, and is the location