Are you looking for information on splash dams or just log dams? Splash dams are log crib dams used to temporarily raise water level to hold felled trees, with a center portion that can be knocked away or splashed, allowing the logs to float down to the sawmill. They were fairly common in eastern Kentucky in about your time frame. I've got "Splash Dam Construction in Eastern Kentucky's Red River Drainage Area", by Fred Coy, Tom Fuller, Larry Meadows and Don Fig. The article appeared in the October 1992 (Vol. 36, No. 4) issue of Forest and Conservation History from Duke University Press, and "Splash Dams used to Move Timber in Eastern Kentucky with Special Reference to the Red River Gorge by the same authors. It was in Tennessee Anthropologist, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Fall 1991. I recorded the remains of one such dam in the Clifty Creek Wilderness Area of the Gorge in 1995, and there were at least two others in the same drainage that had already been identified. I can scan those and send them to you if you are interested and can't find them elsewhere.
Daniel B. Davis
Administrative Branch Manager, Cultural Resources Section
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Division of Environmental Analysis
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40622
(502) 564-7250 or (502) 782-5013
KYTC Archaeology and KYTC Cultural Historic
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Harding and all,
Geographic location is Midwest, Iowa specifically. Time frame of associated non-extant mill, 1862-1888.
time frame for the
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> Are you looking at a specific time period? Or region? Log crib
> construction was very common for the construction of wharves and docks
> (the topic of my never completed Master's thesis). Crib construction
> has been used for a very long time. I am presently documenting an 1890
> log crib founded reservoir dam in rural New Mexico.
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> Can anyone pint me in the direction of resources concerning log crib
> dam construction. Thanks in advance!
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