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Elevated View of Nashville

Date: 1890
Description: Small town completely dependent on the sawmill. When the sawmill closed down, the town disappeared.
Postcard

The Result of a Boiler Explosion

Date: 03 17 1908
Description: Photographic postcard showing the results of a boiler explosion at the Kempf Planing Mill. Written on the left is text that reads: "Kempf Planing Mill, 3 K...
Postcard

C.W. Begg's Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of a group of workers, horses, and a dog posing at railroad siding at C.W. Begg's Mill. Caption reads: "C.W. Begg's Mill at Siding, C...
Photograph

Hiles Lumber Company Locomotive

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Description: Slightly elevated three-quarter view from front left of a Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway locomotive at Hiles Lumber Company. One man is standing ...
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Sugar House

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: Two horses standing in the snow are hitched to a wagon holding a metal trough. Behind the horses smoke is rising up from the sugar house where maple sap is...

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