Logging Industry - Minnesota Historical Society
网页The earliest logging in Minnesota took place alongside rivers, where there was both a lot of timber and a free-flowing means of transportation. Minnesota’s forests looked inexhaustible to early loggers; they could not imagine felling them all …
Lumber Industry in Minnesota | Minnesota Digital Library
网页2020年10月2日 · In the 1830s, small logging companies began to harvest the pines, usually using hand tools and water-powered sawmills. These processed pines—now called lumber—provided the raw material for houses, buildings, mining equipment, railroad ties, farming tools, and other equipment.
Peak Logging Years - Minnesota DNR
网页By 1875 logging was big business, due to the abundance of trees, expanding rail system, and network of waterways extending all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. The rails provided a secondary means to transport logs and lumber elsewhere in Minnesota as well as to the southern states, where demand was especially high.
Timeline - Minnesota Historical Society
网页The “golden era” of lumbering in Minnesota. Logging railroads reached deep into the woods as steam power became the mover of logs. Over 20,000 lumberjacks and half that number of draft horses were working in the northern pineries of the state.
Logging Camps: The Early Years - Minnesota DNR
网页The earliest camps, located along major tributaries so the winter's logs could be floated to sawmills once the spring thaw took place, subsisted on game and fish as the main source of their provisions. Camp owners supplied beans, peas, flour, sugar, and salt.
Logging History Maps Annotated by Miron Heinselman
网页The Logging History Maps are maps annotated by Miron "Bud" Heinselman and J.W. "Bill" Trygg. The maps were given to the University of Minnesota by the author in 1992. The maps were used by the author for his book, The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
MPR: A History of Timbering in Minnesota - MPR News
网页In 1837 a treaty with Ojibwe Indians, the same treaty now being contested over hunting and fishing rights, opened a large triangle of east-central Minnesota to logging. But the heyday was still 50 years off.
网页Researching the history of logging in northern Minnesota is facilitated by the fact that the railroad era of logging was primarily a twentieth century phenomenon that unfolded before a world ready to document it with cameras and pens. The appeal, in no small measure, was the lumberjacks themselves-stalwart men who epitomized the rugged
Piloting Minnesota lumberjacks' souls to the sky - MinnPost
网页2013年9月24日 · Logging in Minnesota began as the fur trade was dying out, in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first commercial sawmill was built in 1839, and the industry grew steadily over the next...
FSTS Sources - Papers - Outta the Woods and Onto the Mills: …
网页Logging began in Minnesota in the 1820s when troops from Fort Snelling cut pine on the Rum River for a newly-established government mill at St. Anthony Falls (now within the area of Minneapolis) (Fig.1). The Rum was the closest source of pine to the mill but it was also a shallow and crooked river often jammed with trees.
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