Equipment Typical of Early Texas Logging
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N 31° 21.026 W 094° 42.284
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A marker located inside the Texas Forestry Museum near a high wheeled logging cart.
Waymark Code: WMAJ1E
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2011
Views: 8
Texas State Historical survey Committee marker
From the Atlas:
Index Entry: Equipment Typical of Early Texas Logging
Address: 1903 Atkinson Dr.
City: Lufkin
County: Angelina
Subject Codes: lumber topics
Year Marker Erected: 1972
Marker Location: Texas Forestry Assn. grounds on SH 103E
Marker Size: 14" x 24"
Marker Number: 6991
Marker Text:
One of last ox-drawn or mule-drawn carts skidding logs to railroad from the forests. Built 1950 for W. T. Carter & Brother, a lumber firm, and replaced 1951 by tractor-powered equipment, this slip-tongue, high wheel cart is a relic of early logging methods. (1972)
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