Flip to Skidway of more than 3,000 logs above railroad tracks, somewhere in Pennsylvania, circa 1900.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives
In the late 1800s, Pennsylvania timber companies axed and sawed their way across the state, cutting down great swaths of centuries-old trees. The timber boom gave rise to hundreds of small settlements in north and central Pennsylvania, many of which disappeared soon after the timber was gone.
