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Workers milling logs in the steam-powered sawmill, during the Great Oregon Steam-Up of 2006. The signature event at Powerland Heritage Park is the Great Oregon Steam-Up, an event held each year during mid-summer (end of July and beginning of August) when many of the exhibits, normally displayed in a non-operational state, are fired up and shown running.
Yesler arrived in Seattle from Ohio in 1852 [2] and built a steam-powered sawmill, which provided numerous jobs for those early settlers and Duwamish tribe members. The mill was located right on the Elliott Bay waterfront, at the foot of what is now known as Yesler Way [1] and was then known as Mill Road or the "Skid Road," so named for the practice of "skidding" greased logs down the steep ...
See "Museums and organizations encompassed by Antique Powerland Museums" section below; Exhibits and demonstrates steam powered equipment, antique farm machinery and implements; includes Oregon Electric Railway Museum and 13 other museums on site Applegate Pioneer Museum Veneta: Lane: Willamette Valley: History - Local
Steam powered sawmills could be far more mechanized. Scrap lumber from the mill provided a ready fuel source for firing the boiler. Efficiency was increased, but the capital cost of a new mill increased dramatically as well. [10] In addition, the use of steam or gasoline-powered traction engines also allowed the entire sawmill to be mobile. [12 ...
The community was founded by Pennsylvania lumberman Edward D. Wetmore to support the sawmill operations of the Kinzua Pine Mills Company, that was named for the Kinzua Township in Pennsylvania. [4] [5] At one time Kinzua was the most populous community in Wheeler County and 330 people worked at the mill. [6]
Built for Forest Lumber Co. of Pine Ridge, Oregon in 1929; sold to Pickering Lumber Corp. of Standard, California, in 1940; one of only five surviving "Pacific Coast" Shay engines; [15] stored inoperable. No. 91: Heisler Locomotive Works: 3-truck "West Coast Special" Heisler tender engine [16] #1595 1930 1980 2011 No. 91 under steam at Expo 86
The log pond of the new lumber company leached various toxins, and nearby residents complained for years that they could taste the log pond in their drinking water. [11] In 1925 the company purchased The Grande Ronde Lumber Co. and its short-line railroad. [12] Railroad access enabled the movement of logs from Mt. Emily to the sawmill in La Grande.
Steam Corners had its start when a steam-powered sawmill was built there, on account of which the town also received its name. [2] A post office called Steam Corners was established in 1865, and remained in operation until 1901. [3]