Wolfeboro Falls, NH: The NERAIL New England Railroad Photo Archive

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Wolfeboro Falls, NH

Looking south at the side track (on left) has an empty box that will be loaded with excelsior (wood shavings). The Mill was still water powered at this time. Even had a narrow gauge railroad that transported the logs from the wood yard across the river to the mill.

Photographed by Bruce Nelson, June 24, 1972.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Nelson, December 15, 2014.
Railroad: Boston & Maine.

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Excelsior was used before plastic foam. In fact, some of the plastic packing material was called "popcorn" after the actual popcorn that it replaced. I personally sold a number of truckloads of peeled poplar out of Quincy, NH to this very mill in 1955 or 1956.

Posted by Steven Hall on 2016-12-13 15:51:30

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