In the early spring of 1872 an article, "The Lumber Regions," appeared in the The Evening Gazette summarizing, in millions of board feet of lumber, the state of the industry in the Upper Delaware River Valley.

The following compilation of newspaper transcripts and maps of lumber mills within the watershed will, I hope, give the reader some idea of the #lumberIndustry and dangers of #rafting down the #DelawareRiver in late #19thCentury #America.

#TriState #NJNYPA

https://minisinkvalleygenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-1872-report-on-lumber-regions.html