Sometime Soon

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Not today, probably not tomorrow, but eventually, I'll venture out, deep into the woods to mess around in a site where a lumber company used to be located back in the old days. Pictures will show areas of where a company office, artesian well, electric light plant, boiler room, planer mill, dry kilns, and a sawmill used to be.

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