![]() Period photos show the logs filling some of the river’s widest parts from bank to bank. The 1915 drive choked the river with hundreds of thousands of 20-foot-long sections of trees. The Connecticut River was already the nation’s oldest log-driving route and the longest, and it regularly carried some of the largest drives in terms of the sheer volume of logs conveyed.ĭuring the winter of 1914-15, the company hired 2,000 men to cut trees and prepare the way for that final drive. The Connecticut River Lumber Company announced that it would end the tradition with the largest log drive the river had ever seen, which was saying something. ![]() ![]() ![]() The news shot through the North Country faster than whitewater in rapids: The age of the major log drives on the Connecticut River was coming to an end.īut there would be one last hurrah. Rivermen work on a log drive at Beecher Falls, Vt., at the north end of the Connecticut River in this photo, circa 1900. ![]()
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