Near the headwaters of the Hudson River are the remains of the W. E. Ward and Company logging mill, with its rusting incinerator tower, once used to burn the prodigious amounts of sawdust and wood trimmings generated by the operation. Logging along the upper Hudson River began in the 1700s, and saw mills were established along the river at existing towns, or at new ones, such as Newcomb, North River, and North Creek. Warrensburg, where the Schroon River meets the Hudson, was a major early mill town, as was Luzerne, where the Sacandaga River meets the Hudson. All of these mills are now gone. The Hudson River, one of the epic and storied rivers of America, is the largest river flowing out of the Adirondacks, and was the largest single conveyor of logs harvested in the park.