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Originally Posted by hazelnut
There are many stories about the pole.
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#2 (The true story?) They used to float logs on Winni (for what I don't know, maybe building/paper mill?) One day when they floated the logs through that narrow channel where the barbers pole now stands, one end of a log sunk and hung up in rocks standing it on end. All the logs around it rubbed most of the bark off in a striped pattern. What was left was a log standing on end witha spiral striped pattern on it (like a barbers pole). It stayed that way for a little while and when it eventually fell it was replaced with a wodden pole painted to look like a barbers pole. Now a plastic pole with faded paint on it.
Any corrections on my misinformation welcome. This is what I heard and I don't remember where I heard it.  |
This is similar to the story I've heard. During the logging days on Winni, bundles of logs would be towed from up past Cow down to Paugus "Bay". To help negotiate the channel near Cow, a rope was run from the bundle to a tree on the shoreline. As the bundle moved down the channel, the rope would wind on the tree causing spiral cuts, which made it look something like a barber pole. Sometime after the tree was gone, somebody who remembered the old tree, got the notion to mark the rock with a real barber pole. It became lake lore. When the original barber pole was lost (don't know how or when) people remembered the "kewl" pole marker and wanted it replaced. It was 3 or so years ago that it was replaced ?? So goes the legend I heard ...
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