Maine’s Quakish Lake is home to as many as 1.2 million cords of wood, a result of the frenzied logging boom of the early 1900s; the logs are being retrieved and turned into beautiful furniture and home building products.
It has been estimated that as many as 1.2 million cords of wood lie at the bottom of Quakish Lake in the small north-central Maine town called Millinocket.
The trees were cut and gathered as part of the logging boom in the early 1900s.
With limited roads, rivers were a common way to transport goods, and Quakish Lake ended up being a holding area for logs destined for the Great Northern Paper Company.
However, workers were not always able to keep up with the frenzied activity, so many of the felled trees ended up sinking to the bottom of the lake.
They remained in the cold water until builder and Millinocket native Steve Sanders sensed the wood’s potential and partnered with businessman Tom Shafer to retrieve the logs and turn them into pellets or pulp.
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