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Near this site, Charles Henry “Mountain Charlie” McKiernan, a native of Ireland, erected his cabin in 1850. The cabin was built of whip-sawed lumber cut from nearby redwood groves. Whip-sawing was a crude form of lumbering performed by two men, one in a pit under the log and the other above.
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