2009 West Virginia
During our week there we had great weather and plenty to do. If our vacation were extended to, say, two weeks, it is not clear I could make that claim.
In addition to the photos in this gallery, there are some panoramas of the West Virginia country side in http://www.alechimwich.com/Other/Panoramas/7091244_MpdwN#476456094_czu6i. These panoramas are perhaps more interesting because of the software I used to create them, AutopanoPro, than for the images themselves.
Here are the remains of the sawmill at Cass operated by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper (WVP&P). Trees cut on the nearby mountains were brought here by the railroad to be processed into pulp or timber. This structure is the planing mill with elevators to take wood to flooring machines some of which took 15 men to operate them.
The logging operation here was originally set up to harvest red spruce which was excellent making pulp for fine papers. Logging eventually expanded to the hardwoods (oak, maple, cherry and birch) in this area.
At its peak, 1922 to 1935, this mill ran two 11 hour shifts, six days per week processing about 125,000 board feet of lumber each shift.
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