Hauling a Log on Main Street, Lebanon

Description:	Caption: This photo was taken some time after January 1, 1887, and possibly around 1890, in front of the old livery barn at 301-303 W. Main Street. Street unpaved and a gas light is at right. Log appears to be that of a yellow poplar (tulip tree or tulip poplar. I can find no reference in newspapers of that period pertaining to the photo, which was loaned to me for copying by Frank McCormick. Man second from left is said to ahve been Smith Cox, who, with Tom Davis, owned the livery stable around 1890. the stable burned oct. 17, 1920 (Sunday morning). Bankable Cigar Building, now Brown-Dolson American Legion Post Home, built on the site in late 1921 and early 1922.Huge trees grew in the great forests of Boone County in the early days. the Lebanon Pioneer, Aug. 22, 1873, records that a large poplar tree, cur from the William Coombs farm (Jackson Twp. ?) was hauled into Lebanon to be cut into board in a local mill. It was 58 from stump to first limb, 33 in circumference at 2 above the ground, 10 1/2 in diameter, and yielded 5 logs--4 were 12 long, and one was 10 in length.The Patriot, Jan. 23, 1902, records: Several Sections of an immense sycamore tree were hauled to the saw mill of A. N. Holloway last week from the farm of Chancy Canine in Washington township. The logs were sound, and the largest one measured six feet in diameter. Mr. Holloway says they were the largest logs from a single tree that have been handled by him in his experience in the business.A 1902 Lebanon business directory gives: cox & Davis, Livery, Feed and Sale Barn, 303 W. Main; and Davis, I. T., as having a livery stable at 310 W. South ST. I. T. Davis was a brother J. Cabe Davis. I. T. and his half-brother, John, were the livery stable men. J. Cabe was never in the livery stable business.
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Collection:	Boone County Heritage
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Subjects:	Lumber

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