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Item Title
Round Lake Logging Dam, Flambeau River, South Fork, Park Falls, Price County, WI
LocationSouth Fork,
Park Falls vicinity, WI
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER WI-7
Significance: The Round Lake Logging Dam is one of the few remaining early artifacts of Wisconsin's logging industry. It was built during the industry's log driving and log booming stages when cut timber was collected and sorted in man-made ponds before being driven downriver to be assembled into rafts for shipment to lumber mills. The dam was built by lumbermen relying on rules of thumb rather than by engineers working from established scientific principles.
Subjects
DamsEngineeringLumber Industry
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. View to north-northwest from upstream
2. View to west-northwest from upstream
3. View to south-southeast from upstream
4. View to southwest from upstream
5. View to south-southwest from upstream
6. View to south from upstream
7. View to east from downstream
8. View to north-northeast from downstream
9. View to north-northeast from downstream
10. View to northeast from downstream
11. View to north-northeast from downstream
12. Lateral view, dam gate rising mechanism
13. End view, dam gate rising mechanism
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