Equipment Typical of Early Texas Logging

Historical marker location:

1905 Atkinson Dr., Lufkin, Texas

( Texas Forestry Museum)

Marker installed: 1972

One of last ox-drawn or mule-drawn carts skidding logs to railroad from the forests. Built 1950 for W. T. Carter & Brother, a lumber firm, and replaced 1951 by tractor-powered equipment, this slip-tongue, high wheel cart is a relic of early logging methods. (1972).

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