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This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.The Blackwater Boom and Lumber Company (also known as the Thompson Lumber Company) was started by Albert Thompson, who brought his family to Tucker County, West Virginia in the late 1800's to take advantage of Tucker County's forests.The company was bought by Babcock Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1907. The mill closed at Davis in 1924.

85. Dry Kiln Fire at Blackwater Lumber and Boom Company, Davis, W. Va.

IDNO:
050749
Title:
Dry Kiln Fire at Blackwater Lumber and Boom Company, Davis, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.The Blackwater Boom and Lumber Company (also known as the Thompson Lumber Company) was started by Albert Thompson, who brought his family to Tucker County, West Virginia in the late 1800's to take advantage of Tucker County's forests.The company was bought by Babcock Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1907. The mill closed at Davis in 1924.
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.The Babcock Lumber and Boom Company bought the Blackwater Lumber and Boom Company from the Thompson family in 1907. It shut down in 1924. The image shows a train falling from the edge of a mountain.

86. Babcock Lumber and Boom Company Train Crash at Blackwater Canyon, W. Va.

IDNO:
050755
Title:
Babcock Lumber and Boom Company Train Crash at Blackwater Canyon, W. Va.
Date:
1912/04
Description:
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.The Babcock Lumber and Boom Company bought the Blackwater Lumber and Boom Company from the Thompson family in 1907. It shut down in 1924. The image shows a train falling from the edge of a mountain.
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.

87. Winter at Planing Mill, Davis, W. Va

IDNO:
050804
Title:
Winter at Planing Mill, Davis, W. Va
Date:
ca. 1880-1910
Description:
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.In the background, the stack belongs to the First Electric Plant in central W. Va. It was heated by coal boilers. The view shows the Thompson Lumber mill, later the Blackwater and Boom Lumber Company.

88. Thompson Lumber Mill, Blackwater Lumber Co., Davis, W. Va

IDNO:
050815
Title:
Thompson Lumber Mill, Blackwater Lumber Co., Davis, W. Va
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.In the background, the stack belongs to the First Electric Plant in central W. Va. It was heated by coal boilers. The view shows the Thompson Lumber mill, later the Blackwater and Boom Lumber Company.
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"1. D. M. Cuthbertson, Woods Superintendent, and J.W. Fischer, Mill Superintendent, both of whom ought to know better than to try to PUSH over one of Hazel Creek's finest. "

89. Cuthbertson and Fischer In Hazel Creek Woods

IDNO:
053554
Title:
Cuthbertson and Fischer In Hazel Creek Woods
Date:
1923
Description:
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"1. D. M. Cuthbertson, Woods Superintendent, and J.W. Fischer, Mill Superintendent, both of whom ought to know better than to try to PUSH over one of Hazel Creek's finest. "
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"2. Here they are again, no doubts resting from their excursions, and sitting on a nice stick along Dillard Hall, Cutting Foreman. "

90. Cuthbert and Fischer In Hazel Creek Woods

IDNO:
053556
Title:
Cuthbert and Fischer In Hazel Creek Woods
Date:
1923
Description:
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"2. Here they are again, no doubts resting from their excursions, and sitting on a nice stick along Dillard Hall, Cutting Foreman. "
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"3. Dillard Hall on top of the log, with Jim Nicholas and Bill Proctor riding the saw."

91. Hall, Nicholas, and Proctor in Hazel Creek Woods

IDNO:
053557
Title:
Hall, Nicholas, and Proctor in Hazel Creek Woods
Date:
1923
Description:
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"3. Dillard Hall on top of the log, with Jim Nicholas and Bill Proctor riding the saw."
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"5. No, this is not the location of a still. It is an abandoned copper mine where we are now logging, with D.M. Cuthbertson in the foreground."

92. Cuthbert in Hazel Creek Woods

IDNO:
053559
Title:
Cuthbert in Hazel Creek Woods
Date:
1923
Description:
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"5. No, this is not the location of a still. It is an abandoned copper mine where we are now logging, with D.M. Cuthbertson in the foreground."