The splash dams are built using log cribs. Usually two or more, adjacent to a center opening. The cribs are typically filled with rock, and have a bottom mudsill that in some cases at least, was attached to the floor of the stream bed via notching and iron spikes. Evidently, they also have their own Wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_dam
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cindy Nagel
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:29 AM
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Subject: Re: log crib dam construction
Daniel,
Looking for information on the construction of crib dams. This dam was associated with a grist mill. I will check out the reference you mentioned as the splash dam sounds interesting.
Thank you!
*Cindy L. Nagel*
Project Archaeologist
Tallgrass Archaeology LLC
2460 S. Riverside Drive
Iowa City, Iowa 52246
office: (319) 354-6722
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 6:56 AM Davis, Daniel B (KYTC) <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Cindy Nagel
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 3:02 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: log crib dam construction
>
> Harding and all,
>
> Geographic location is Midwest, Iowa specifically. Time frame of
> associated non-extant mill, 1862-1888.
>
> time frame for the
> *Cindy L. Nagel*
> Project Archaeologist
> Tallgrass Archaeology LLC
> 2460 S. Riverside Drive
> Iowa City, Iowa 52246
> office: (319) 354-6722
> cell: (319)325-6200
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 1:46 PM Harding Polk <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cindy Nagel <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Subject: log crib dam construction
> >
> > Can anyone pint me in the direction of resources concerning log crib
> > dam construction. Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> > *Cindy L. Nagel*
> > Project Archaeologist
> > Tallgrass Archaeology LLC
> > 2460 S. Riverside Drive
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