I don’t know if this is true - maybe someone else here does - but I’ve heard that Georgia was not originally called the “Peachtree State” but the “Pitch-Tree State,” referring to the pine tar, rosin, and turpentine industries.
Thanks for this glimpse of history. I have old family movies of a visit to a turpentine plantation in the 1930s when I guess it was a dying industry. My father used to take the family on long trips around the country and he documented a lot of pre-WWII life that has long disappeared.
I am so happy to have found my way to a site that contains so much readable and interesting information. The “Turpentine” piece reminded me of the Lamb Fish Lumber company, of Charleston, MS, once the largest lumber producer in the world, maybe.
Imagine the misery of being a convict working either at Lamb Fish or in a turpentine operation! Ugh. I’d rather be dead.
I was born in Charleston, but I grabbed my diaper bag and soon skedaddled. A cousin now lives at the site of the remnants of the Lamb Fish office. The structure was a double-wythe brick building, approximately 350 sq. ft. Only the four walls remain. Ozymandius, anyone?
Yet once again I feel smarter after reading your articles.
I don’t know if this is true - maybe someone else here does - but I’ve heard that Georgia was not originally called the “Peachtree State” but the “Pitch-Tree State,” referring to the pine tar, rosin, and turpentine industries.
Thanks for this glimpse of history. I have old family movies of a visit to a turpentine plantation in the 1930s when I guess it was a dying industry. My father used to take the family on long trips around the country and he documented a lot of pre-WWII life that has long disappeared.
Hi Kathleen,
You have "Nora Neale Hurston" twice, once in text, once in footnotes. It should be "Zora."
From your friend and amateur copy editor,
CP
I am so happy to have found my way to a site that contains so much readable and interesting information. The “Turpentine” piece reminded me of the Lamb Fish Lumber company, of Charleston, MS, once the largest lumber producer in the world, maybe.
Imagine the misery of being a convict working either at Lamb Fish or in a turpentine operation! Ugh. I’d rather be dead.
I was born in Charleston, but I grabbed my diaper bag and soon skedaddled. A cousin now lives at the site of the remnants of the Lamb Fish office. The structure was a double-wythe brick building, approximately 350 sq. ft. Only the four walls remain. Ozymandius, anyone?