Splash Dams, Henry Ford and Singer Sewing Machines: Industry-Scale Logging in Rabun County
Tulip poplars with girths of seven feet. Tens of thousands of clear-cut acres. A sawmill cutting 13 miles of boards every day. These startling facts tell the story of what was once Rabun County’s largest industry: the environmental disaster known as industrial-scale logging. Rabun Logging Started in 1890s Logging on an industrial scale began in