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Marker detail: East Channel Mill Pond, 1860s
Photographer: Hennepin Historical Museum
Caption: Marker detail: East Channel Mill Pond, 1860s
Additional Description: This 1860s photo shows logs in the east channel mill pond. The sawmills were called "platform mills," because they stood on a platform over the dam. Cut lumber floated down sluices to calmer waters below the falls where it could be assembled into rafts.
Submitted: September 1, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p536895
File Size: 4.977 Megabytes

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