Timber Rafting
The earliest mention of timber rafting on the Kinzig was in 1339. The last commercial logging raft navigated the Kinzig in 1896. Regular festivals as well as museums in Gengenbach and Wolfach celebrate a dangerous profession that has been entirely replaced by trucking.
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Famous quotes containing the word timber:
“Here commences what was called, twenty years ago, the best timber land in the State. This very spot was described as “covered with the greatest abundance of pine,” but now this appeared to me, comparatively, an uncommon tree there,—and yet you did not see where any more could have stood, amid the dense growth of cedar, fir, etc.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)