Cook Line Shack

At the turn of the century and after the slaughter of the white pine and deciduous trees in this area, many of the loggers homesteaded on some of the cut-over. The men and their horses were hired by the township, county or state to work on a railroad or road construction site in or near their community, therefore, they stayed on the construction site until finished.

To accommodate this crew of men, mobile bunkhouse line shacks where constructed as sleeping quarters for these men.

Pictures displayed here will show that this life style was continued even later when the county or state had early earth hauling equipment such as the Model T Ford trucks whit a gravity dump box. Grain and hay was furnished for the horses from local available supplies.

After roads were constructed suitable for early cars and trucks, the need for horses or oxen were replaced by early construction equipment such as the steam, kerosene, or gasoline engines, graders, cat dozers, scrapers, earth movers such as cranes & shovels.

NEXT►

Pioneer Village Museum PO Box 242 Cameron, WI 54822
715-458-2080 (museum) or 715-642-1327 (cell)
Website Designed and Hosted By DCS Netlink