Chances are the wood Todd Morrissette is gathering off the bottom of a cold, Maine lake wasn’t growing when you—or even your parents or grandparents—were alive.
As founder of DeadHead Lumber, his job is to search lake floors for relics from the state’s historical log drives. The reclaimed wood is then used by homeowners for their living room floors and kitchen tables.
Maine’s legendary logging industry was begun by English explorers in the early 1600s and continued into the 1800s, when it was estimated that as many as 3,000 ships were anchored in a South Berwick hub to transport wood to a growing United States.
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