The annual log drive on the Connecticut River that runs between Vermont and New Hampshire through Massachusetts and Connecticut often tied up the river for weeks at a time as hundreds of thousands of logs floated to the mills at Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and at the base of Mount Tom in Holyoke, Massachusetts. To prevent damage from stray logs and to keep the majority of them in the channel, long booms were strung along the river. The gang described here arrived in their launch, the “Van Dyke,” named for George Van Dyke, the owner of the Connecticut Valley Lumber Company and the Mount Tom mill. The sluice they are installing was used to route logs over the dam and further downstream.
Greenfield Gazette and Courier. “Gang of Loggers Arrive.” July 4, 1908. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l02-097/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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