The timber raft pictured was floating the Oconee River near Dublin, Ga., (1890) but represented the type of raft used on that river and the Ocmulgee and Altamaha. The logs which made up the raft would eventually end up at Darien. There they were sold and the raftsmen would return home, sometimes on foot, to build another raft. Farmers would often engage in this activity when they had laid their crops by. It brought in extra income. Can you imagine one of these huge timber rafts meeting a large steamboat on the Ocmulgee River?