Grand Lake Dam, Grand Lake Stream, Me. 27c.

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[included in the exhibit "Washington County Through Eastern's Eye"] LB2007.1.106336 Grand Lake Dam, Grand Lake Stream, Me. 17C. This c. 1920 shows the Grand Lake Stream Dam with an old Company building, where tools and equipment were stored, on the far right. The low buildings facing the water were boathouses, in which guides or other boat owners could rent space from the town. A long building adjacent to the boathouses called "The Lockers" had storage spaces with individual doors where guides rented space from the town for their gear. The "piers" showing over the top of the dam were used to tie the boom logs during the log driving days. Logs would be "boomed up" or chained together to make a corral to contain logs, which would then be towed by a boat down the lake to the dam. From there the logs were sluiced down the river, across Big Lake and Lewy Lake, to the West Branch of the St. Croix River, where they would end their journey in Woodland at the St. Croix Paper Company mill. Caption information provided by Art Wheaton