The Bridal Veil Lumbering Company: Indications of Advancing Technologies and Improved Residential Conditions at Camp A

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Logging was an economic and cultural pillar of the Pacific Northwest. The Bridal Veil Lumbering Company, a logging company operating in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon State, was the longest continuously operating early lumber mill west of the Mississippi River. The company spanned a timeframe that encompassed a wide range of technologies, immigration trends, labor uprisings and resulting changes in working and living conditions, and safety regulations. Archaeological investigations over the last several decades have revealed the remains of six camps, each an architype of the technological and cultural milieu of the decade in which it operated. Recent investigations at “Camp A” have indicated shifts in operational and residential conditions during the circa 1917–1922 occupational timeframe of the camp. This poster documents the ongoing investigations at Bridal Veil Camp A with a focus on indications of changing camp operational technologies and improved labor and residential conditions. However, many questions remain, as indicated by both the archaeological record but also by a lack of refuse materials. Research questions that will drive future investigations will also be discussed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37501.0