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The lumber boom of coastal South Carolina : nineteenth-century shipbuilding and the devastation of lowcountry virgin forests
- Title
- The lumber boom of coastal South Carolina : nineteenth-century shipbuilding and the devastation of lowcountry virgin forests / Robert McAlister.
- Author
- McAlister, Robert.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2013.
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| Text | Request in advance | HD9757.S6 M33 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 110 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Harriott Hampton Faucette -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1825-35: Henry Buck of Bucksport, Maine, establishes the first steam sawmill in South Carolina -- 1835-60: Buck's mills become the largest supplier of South Carolina lumber to the shipbuilders of Maine -- 1860-75: the Buck family survives the Civil War and resumes lumber shipments to the north -- The legacy of the Henrietta and Northeastern shipbuilding -- 1885-1900: the decline of Bucksville and the Buck family's lumber mills -- 1900-30: the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, the largest lumber mill east of the Mississippi River -- International Paper Company in Georgetown, the largest single paper mill in the world -- Conservation and forest restoration in lowcountry South Carolina -- Epilogue: summer in the swamps of lowcountry South Carolina -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
- ISBN
- 9781626192782 (paperback)
- 1626192782 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2013040604
- 99956316773
- OCLC
- 857404958
- ocn857404958
- SCSB-5721080
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries