- 1. Rockland
- (Category)
- ... Turnwood and Rockland. Our first settlers were kept very busy clearing the forests which provided an early source of income because of the ready market for logs and lumber. Logs were lashed together ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Highland
- (Category)
- ... r was cut and tied into rafts and floated down the river to Philadelphia where the logs were used as spaars in the shipbuilding industry. There were numerous sawmills in the town during its lumbering heyday ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Delaware
- (Category)
- ... er put his first small raft of logs into the Delaware just below Callicoon, and floated it to market in Philadelphia. This grew into a business, which took millions of board feet of timber from the fore ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. The Oil Pipeline
- (General History)
- ... with the assembled pipeline, assuring that the threads would catch correctly. Then sixteen men grabbed the pipe with pincers, tools similar to the cant hooks used to maneuver logs by lumberman, turning ...
- Created on 28 June 2011
- 5. Daniel Skinner
- (History Makers)
- ... with Oak trees, other hardwoods, pines and in New Jersey, white cedar. A profitable business developed by constructing rafts and floating these logs down the Delaware to Philadelphia and other emerging ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
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