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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.
It is just north of Estacada, Oregon, on the Clackamas River at river mile 23.5 (km 37.8). It received its name from being near a sawmill that was located along the river. [3] The dam has been in continuous production of hydroelectric power since 1911, when its construction was funded by the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company.
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]
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 ...
Dawson was the terminus of the Southern Pacific Bailey Branch (later operated by the Willamette & Pacific Railroad), which served the local sawmill into the 1990s [1] but has since been abandoned. The Hull-Oakes Lumber Company sawmill in Dawson was the last steam-powered sawmill in the United States, and the only mill in the Pacific Northwest ...
The rated capacity of the new sawmill was 50,000,000 board feet per year. [13] [14]: 3 By comparison, the Wisconsin-Michigan Lumber Co. milled about 15,000,000 board feet per year. Charles Kinzel continued his logging operations in Wisconsin for a time, ending his own rail operations in 1926 and closing his sawmill in 1930. [15]
The AC power generated (about 4,020 horse power or 3 MW) at the Folsom hydroelectric facility was converted to 11,000 volts at the power plant by twelve new (in 1895) air cooled transformers invented by William Stanley, Jr. and transmitted to Sacramento on twelve bare #1 AVG copper wires held by ceramic insulators that were attached to the ...
Powered by 13 natural springs located beside the mill, it is thought to be one of the largest of its kind in the world. - Mill Springs; Wisenberger Mill, near Midway; Maine. Bog Mill, Buxton; Dexter Grist Mill, Dexter, built in 1854; Maine Forest & Logging Museum also known as Leonard's Mills, has Maine's only operational saw mill.