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Sugarloaf yesterday - Bigelow Station

(Editor’s note: this story is taken from the Aug. 31, 1976, Vol. 9, No. 29 issue of the Sugarloaf Irregular and is reprinted here in its entirety. ©The Original Irregular)

Bigelow Station

At the turn of the century, the Sugarloaf area saw a booming lumbering activity. This is a shot of Bigelow Station with Sugarloaf and Crocker in the background. Though the photograph is far from sharp, it shows the two mountains virtually bald, stripped completely of timber. The trees that cover them today are all second growth.

Of the buildings in this picture, only the station house still stands, though walks through the woods today reveal brickwork and foundations from several sawmills and dams that backed up water to sluice the logs downstream in the days before the railroad was put in.

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