Facilities Sierra Nevada Logging Museum




1 facilities

1.1 exhibits

1.1.1 indoor museum
1.1.2 open-air museum







facilities

the sierra nevada logging museum located in community of white pines on 7-acre (28,000 m) site, occupied historic logging , mill workers’ camp of blagen lumber company, operated 1938 1962. museum in 2,400-square-foot (220 m) building, on forested slope above white pines lake (elevation 4,000 feet). has indoor exhibit space, outdoor exhibits of large logging equipment , artifacts.


exhibits
indoor museum

museum exhibits highlight economic, technological, social, , cultural contributions made throughout region loggers , logging industry. interior displays include working models of sawmills , logging camps, historic logging photos, dioramas illustrating evolution of logging 1850s present day, , large collection of logging tools such handsaws, drag saws , chainsaws, peeves , canthooks, broadaxes , felling axes. also, full-size scene of 1930s-era logging camp family cabin, , touch-screen displays of logging sights , sounds highlights of museum.


open-air museum

steam donkey



automatic tree pruner


interpretive trails guide visitors historic artifacts: willamette steam donkey first operated in tuolumne county, “two-man” sawmill, 1920 shay logging locomotive (under restoration), several enormous logging arches, 3 caterpillar tractors 1930s, drying-yard lumber carrier, historic adams horse-drawn grader used road clearing in woods, , many others.








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