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Soon after Yellow Poplar Lumber Company’s first big test run of 6,000 logs, as seen in the photo above, a great number of timbers were left in the big boulders of The Breaks. Yellow Poplar discovered that in order to float the logs down the river towards Pikeville, they had to drill and blast the Jerry Rocks, forever changing the river face of The Breaks.

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