Posted 5 years ago
ho2cultcha
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?? not quite sure what this is showing, but there's a lot of guys - including the one on the roof and a couple of women and children. I think it's a sawmill. i wish i could read the words on the crate - i bet there's info about where this is on it. what do you think?
I think it may be a sawmill to make cedar shingles?? Looking at the bundles on the right.
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Early 19th Century steam powered sawmills made shingles easier to make!!!
Red cedar West Coast/White Called Atlantic Cedar East Coast?
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The roof looks like it was made of wood Shakes? Check it out on Wikipedia.
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I agree with yougottahavestuff in part ...lol is that guy nailing the ridge cap on that new shake roof ...?
Findings is right!! The more you look at pictures the more you see!!! Time capsules of where and when!!
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We're at Myrtle beach on vacation, when the wind is just right you can smell the paper mill in Georgetown 36 miles away!! Maine has a few not as many as years ago!! One town was nicknamed Stinken Lincoln!! Doesn't have a mill now, but some people still call it that.
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we used to go by stinken Lincoln now and then. it did stink!