timber town
Forest industry village
A timber town is a community whose economy centers on logging and lumber production.
These towns typically developed near forests and declined as timber supplies diminished or the industry mechanized: The old timber town had more boarded-up storefronts than open ones.
The term often carries nostalgic or elegiac overtones about industrial decline.
- loggersPeople who fell trees
- chainsawMotor-driven cutting tool
- lumberjacksProfessional tree fellers
- forestryManaging wooded land
- forest industryTimber production sector
saw · log · sawmill · oral histories · millpond · pioneer heritage · boom and bust · folk traditions · seasonal work · heritage tourism · pine · logging camp · woodland · logging roads · mill workers · labor unions · working class · wood processing
- industrial townsindustrial city, Gary, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Youngstown
- forest settlementslogging camp
- forest townslogging camp
- frontier towngeneral store, saloon, sheriff's office, livery stable, hitching post
- small townshamlet, village, settlement, homestead, village square
- mountain settlementsmountain village, alpine village, hill station, hillside village
timber townmining town
Settlement serving ore extraction
mining camp · coal town · fishing village · cattle town · oil town
timber townmetropolis
Large important city
financial center · tech hub · capital city · commercial center · service economy