This is the water-powered, vertical-blade Bertolet Sawmill which was moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead site from the Oley Valley in 1972. The mill was built circa 1810. If you remember “The Walton’s” TV Show in the 1970s, they had a similar, though larger sawmill operation as the family business.
For more information on visiting the Daniel Boone Homestead visit their web site. Due to massive Pennsylvania state budget cuts which have really hit the PA museums and historical sites very hard, the homestead is open only on a limited basis and manned mostly by volunteers these days. It never ceases to amaze me how we find eight million dollars in the state budget to end a strike by Septa workers in Philadelphia but we can’t find enough money to keep our own historical places going and at the same time we tout our state to the tourists as being so rich in history.
I shot this back on 5-23-2009 as five bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop variance and then combined them into an HDR and toned mapped them with Photomatix Pro to create the final product.
