Chiayi Lumberyard. The Chiayi Lumberyard is temporarily closed for facility and landscape improvement works starting from December 30, 2024. The construction period is approximately 1. The Chiayi Lumberyard is temporarily closed for facility and landscape improvement works starting from December 30, 2024. The construction period is approximately 15 months. The actual reopening date will be announced later. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Source: The Chiayi Lumberyard was built in the third year of the Taisho era (1914) during the Japanese colonial period. It was the largest state-run timber industrial park in terms of land area during the Japanese colonial period, responsible for storing logs felled from Alishan and processing them into lumber. Its production capacity was once claimed to be the largest in East Asia. The lumberyard's interior was planned with spaces including the power room, sawdust room, offices, machinery workshop, drying room, and handcraft workshop. Notably, the power room on the left side of the entrance is the first steel-frame reinforced concrete structure building in Chiayi and also the earliest thermal power plant in Chiayi. A hundred years ago, Chiayi was already famous for its mechanized lumber industry. Mechanical operations relied on electricity, and at that time, only a few areas in Taiwan had electricity supply. The "Chiayi Electric Light Company" was established as a private enterprise in Chiayi City in the 44th year of the Meiji era (1911), using gas engines to supply electricity for streetlights and some households. The Chiayi Lumberyard's demand for electricity for lumber processing, various saws, and the mobile cable crane for the log pond was even greater, thus necessitating the establishment of its own power generation facility.
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