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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2008
Caption: Steam Powered Sawmill ( c.1818 to 1925) -
Additional Description: Steam power was introduced at the Lower Bluff in 1818. Timber rafts, constructed up river, were floated to those mills to be sawn. Freshly cut lumber was loaded aboard timber schooners and sent to foreign ports.In 1900 over 112.5 million board feet of timber were shipped from these local waters.
Submitted: August 30, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p33597
File Size: 0.148 Megabytes

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