The bustling sounds of old sawmills are from a bygone era when commercial logging boomed in Sonoma County, beginning in 1836 with the construction of Cooper’s Sawmill on Rancho El Molino.

A "portable sawmill" in Hastings, Barry County, Mich. in 1895. A note on the back of the photo reads "Over 1.000.000 [sic] feet of white oak logs cut by the saw mill that year into car oak, cross ...

Before chain saws came into the picture - the first one invented circa 1930, trees and all the lumber and paper products were felled by hand. Logging companies would buy timber and build camps in ...

Old-fashioned logging the mane event in Fraser ... we had 12 different kids climb up on Mike for photos, and for patting him on the neck," Thorson ... and into smaller logs - using a chain saw.

These wonderful old photos, graciously shared by the Bethel Historical Society, will be on display until the end of August. On Tuesday, July 22, at 6:30 p.m., the library will feature the photos ...

OLD MILL SPRINGS BACK TO LIFESTURGEON'S SAWMILL VOLUNTEERS PUT ON DEMONSTRATION OF HISTORIC LOGGING METHODS AT OCCIDENTAL SITE. An ancient steam sawmill near Occidental, silent for nearly 40 years ...

Ruins are all that remain of old logging town. There was a small cluster of buildings in the White Mountains on the Fort Apache Reservation, ... PHOTOS: Find a new favorite hike in the Valley.

TJ Watts of Ancient Forest Alliance uses before-and-after photographs to illustrate the destructiveness of old-growth logging in British Columbia.