DCHP-3

lumber depot

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a farm, operated by a lumber company or privately owned, supplying fresh meat and vegetables, oats, etc., to lumber camps and often serving as a repository for supplies.

Quotations

1883
Some weeks after . . . Gandron was seen at a lumbering depot some distance off. . . .
1961
. . . it was almost impossible to smuggle in whisky blanc or rotgut because of the distances of the lumber depots from the towns and villages along the shore.