Halfway Brook

The Delaware River Gap was a large break in the Appalachian Mountains. It was one of the very scenic places viewed by timber rafters as they floated their rafts to market on the Delaware River. Postcard of Aida Austin.
The Delaware River near Narrowsburg, New York, had originally been so narrow and with such a sharp [...]

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Sherman B., or Buckley, as Sherman Buckley Leavenworth was called, was one of those lumberjacks. Buckley’s wife Charlotte, according to the family story, was the cook for the lumberjacks who lived in the bunkhouse.

Possibly the old bunkhouse on the right. Old photo courtesy of my cousin Linda.
The early bunkhouses for lumbermen were small with dirt [...]

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In late 1824, Garrett Wilson and three other men purchased Shohola Lumber property in Shohola, Pennsylvania, across from what was then called the River Settlement, now Barryville.
Mr. Wilson became the sole manager, and the company was
“…constantly engaged in cutting logs, drawing and placing them in the Shohola Brook where they lay until the water of [...]

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