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Legends Lumber searches throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico for historic wooden structures.
Only those that cannot be renovated or restored are meticulously dismantled and disassembled by our trained reclamation crews.
The resulting timbers, logs, planks and antiquities are then inventoried and readied for their journey to a new life in a carefully designed home or commercial structure.
Trees of immense proportions with ancient beginnings once covered the North American continent. These vast virgin forests stood for centuries untouched by man.
When our forefathers recognized the value of these great natural resources, strong, determined men began to harvest the forests at an alarming rate. By the middle of the 20th century, only small remote pockets of old growth forests remained.
Today, the widespread destruction of these ancient trees and their fragile ecosystems has nearly stopped, however, a legacy remains from the last era of great trees. Huge structures were built from the lumber and timber milled from the old-growth forests which include saw mills, gold mines, train stations tunnels, bridges, barns and warehouses. These structures, built in the mid 1800's to early 1900's contain a vast source of precious materials.
Legends Lumber has rescued huge antique timbers that were secreted away in channels of the Columbia River in Oregon.
These timbers were used in floating timber rafts in the 1800's. These rafts were towed to sailing schooners and steamships to be loaded. They were also towed to mills in California across miles of open ocean.
We have over 500,00 board feet of inventory of these immense timbers. These timbers range in size from 12x12 to 14x36 and up to 70' in length. There are both round and square timbers available, all with a beautiful hand washed gray patina.
If you have any current or future building projects that deserve the quality and uniqueness offered by these fine historical pieces, please contact us at your earliest convenience.
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