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1. Bell Lumber and Pole Yards, New Brighton, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Beisell, Hobert
- Date Created:
- 1930
- Description:
- Bell Lumber and Pole Yards began business in 1919, treating telephone poles and lumber. The company hired many local men and is still in business today. In mid-1980s, after being declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bell began the process of cleaning up the hazardous chemicals on its property, spending over $10 million to do so and also to rebuild the plant to treat poles and lumber using environmentally clean processes. This panorama photo shows the pole treating plant and the large telephone poles treated in the process.
- Contributing Institution:
- New Brighton Area Historical Society
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Panoramas
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