Lumber Camps in Clinton County

Northern Pennsylvania’s “lumbering days” were roughly from the early 1800s into the 1920s, with the great boom years from about the Civil War through the first decade of the 1900s. Logs could be rafted or driven downstream. Later, narrow-gauge logging railroads, splash dams, steam mills, and tanneries pushed the industry deep into the mountains. Harry Cranmer, of Hammersley Fork in Clinton County, was a veteran lumberman and was also an historian who shared his stories of life in lumber camps.