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Enormous pile of logs at a skidway in Brandreth Park

Enormous pile of logs at a skidway in Brandreth Park

People and horses by log pile. In spring, “key log” would be taken out and all of the logs would roll into the water so to be “driven” downstream. Operations of the Mac-A-Mac Lumber Corporation. Handwritten on photo “AT THE BIG SKIDWAY. BRANDRETH, N.Y. MAC A MAC.” Photograph by Henry M. Beach. Circa 1910. Brandreth Park, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

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