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Location: 1218 Copeland Park Dr.

William Koch: Lot of log jams in the spring of the year when they—they always had log jams in the spring of the year. These logs—like I said—were all out there piled up on the ice! Well, naturally when they—when the thaw came and the river broke up, these logs were pretty well packed in there and they’d come down the river. And then they had men following these logs, you know, and the time that they let go up there, they followed them. And they followed along and whenever a log jam occurred they would—they’d get out there. And that was a dangerous job! They—they would have to get in there with their pike poles and try to, uh, un-jam a key log in order to break the whole works, you know, and get it started again. But sometimes they couldn’t do it! They had to use dynamite. To break up the jam!