The Flashback Photo is back with a grainy but fascinating view of a floating sawmill on the Sassafras River, c. 1900. A long-john boiler and a tall smokestack are visible in this photograph, which appeared in M.V. Brewington’s This Was Chesapeake Bay (New York, 1953) with photo credit going to Thomas P. Hammer.
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