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Identification #
OGL291-76
Description
Photograph of the back side of the Grand Forks Lumber Co on the Red Lake River.
R.H. McCoy, born in Wisconsin, became involved in white-pine logging there before starting a lumber mill in Minnesota in 1886, and then McCoy built a sawmill at East Grand Forks in 1899. McCoy got his logs from the Red Lake region in Minnesota after those pinelands were opened in 1896. Lumberjacks floated the logs down the Red Lake River for sawing in McCoy’s Grand Forks Lumber Company sawmill, located on the Minnesota side of the Red River.
It wasn’t long before McCoy’s logging operations in the west began taking him away from his family in Grand Forks for extended stretches. Accordingly, in 1912, McCoy sold his splendid residence and moved with his family to Idaho. Mr. McCoy discontinued his Grand Forks Lumber Company operations soon thereafter. (Prairie Public Newsroom.)
Places Depicted
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Organizations Depicted
Grand Forks Lumber Company Mill
Rights
Elwyn B Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks