St. Croix Boom Site

The St. Croix Boom Site is a National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It lies on the banks of the St. Croix River upstream of Stillwater. The facility was built in 1856 after the dissolution of the former St. Croix Boom Company, which had operated upstream near Marine on St. Croix a dam. Isaac Staples and other sizes of the timber industry bought the company and moved the activities to Stillwater.

Wood, which they had taken further up the river, was provided with a branding of the company and the logs then floated across the St. Croix River downstream. In Stillwater, they were fished out of the river and sorted by their owners and then transported to the sawmills in Stillwater. The company took for the cover of the wood, a fee of about 17 cents / m³.

The St. Croix Boom was a very profitable enterprise. Not only is the cover charge, whose generous height was enshrined in the statutes of the company, but also the clever planning contributed to this, as out of season the plant could be operated by a very small team. The delivered wood brought high profits. During the 1870s, the cut down trees over the summer often over 25 km in length dammed upstream.

The plant was in operation until 1914, when lying on the river areas were completely cut down. Subsequently, the device was forgotten until it was rediscovered in 1975 by an employee of the National Park Service. This was done in preparation for the designation of the river as a National Scenic Waterway. By the year 1975, the forest had grown.

Today the Boom Site is a popular destination on the St. Croix River. It lies at the upper end of Lake St. Croix, the wide part of the river, the home to Prescott ranges from Stillwater in Wisconsin, where the river empties into the Mississippi River.

An information board dismissed originally on the importance of creating for:

" Prior to the 1914 center Holzfäll and wood processing activities in this region for more than half a century. Here millions of logs were collected, sorted and rafted to be later cut into lumber and lumber products from the upper St. Croix and its tributaries. Here more strains were handled, than at any similar place in this area. 1940. "

This billboard was damaged and due to budget cuts in the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the social services and the parking lot on the outskirts of this historic landmark in October 2005 were closed. Therefore, the object was placed on the watch list of the National Historic - Landmark program.