Splash dam on Otter Run, a tributary of Little Pine Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The splash dam is being used to release water and float logs to Pine Creek, then the West Branch Susquehanna River and sawmills at Williamsport.
Date
Taken before 1908 as the last log drive on Little Pine Creek was then.
Source
Harry Stephenson, Sr. "History of Little Pine Valley", 1992, page 104.
Public Domain as published in the United States before 1923: a differently cropped version of the same photo appears on page 184 of "Forest Leaves", Volume 17, No. 12, published in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Philadelphia, with the caption "Sluicing Logs Through The Gate. Flooks Run S[p]lash Dam, Little Pine Creek, Lycoming County, PA".
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