Falk's Claim
Author: Jon Humboldt Gates
Publisher: Moonstone Pub
Published: 2022-08-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781878136015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life and death of a redwood lumber town
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Author: Jon Humboldt Gates
Publisher: Moonstone Pub
Published: 2022-08-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781878136015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life and death of a redwood lumber town
Author: Julie Clark
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467129755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the years 1884 and 1937, the company mill and lumber town of Falk thrived in what is now the Headwaters Forest Reserve. In the late 1800s, Noah Falk and two other stakeholders became partners in the Elk River Mill and Lumber Company. During this transitional time in logging history, Falk was able to capitalize on the relatively inexpensive price of land, cheap labor, and inexpensive logging technologies, such as the band saw and the Dolbeer steam donkey. Isolated from Eureka and within the backdrop of the industrial revolution, many changes and spikes in local and immigrant populations created an intricate company town of 400 people. Between the 1940s and 1970s, Falk became a ghost town until the vacant buildings eventually became part of the soil that now supports the Headwaters Forest Reserve, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 50
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Michael Buckley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2024-11-19
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1477330267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city.” This city consisted of a far-reaching network of spaces, produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment. Combining labor, urban, industrial, and social history, City of Wood employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles, novels, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space.
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Total Pages: 614
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