Growing Up in a Sawmill City
Author : Bruce Cameran
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2015-08
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ISBN : 9781614228912
Author : Bruce Cameran
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2015-08
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ISBN : 9781614228912
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Harbors
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Author : T. C. Smith
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 9780979442704
Author : United States. Environmental Data Service
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Meteorology
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Lumber trade
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1988
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1947
Category : United States
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Author : Ralph Warren Andrews
Publisher : Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Sawmill workers
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Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1427629765
In 1904, when the Hassinger brothers ¿ Luther (L. C.), Will, and John ¿ came from the northwestern Pennsylvania county of Forest to the southwestern Virginia county of Washington with the idea of continuing their father¿s lumber business, they liked what they saw: thousands of acres of virgin forest. Two years later, they built a sawmill in Washington County and a company town to support its workers. L. C.¿s mother, Letisha, named the town Konnarock. In less than ten years, the Hassinger Lumber Company of Konnarock, Virginia, had employed over 400 workers, laid down over 75 miles of railroad track (they named their railroad the White Top Railway), built 20 logging camps, and sawed almost 60,000 board feet of lumber per day at its mill. Not only did the Hassinger Lumber Company cut timber in Washington County, Virginia, they also did extensive timbering in neighboring Ashe County, North Carolina, and also sawed timber cut in Watauga County, North Carolina, when the Deep Gap Tie and Lumber Company, located in the Watauga County village of Deep Gap, bought the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s Shay locomotive No. 3, sending its logs to the Hassinger sawmill in Konnarock, 50 miles away. By the time the blades went silent on Christmas Eve, 1928, almost 400 million board feet of the area¿s best wood had passed through the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s sawmill. This book contains the story of the Hassinger Lumber Company and its company town, Konnarock, as well as information about the Beaver Dam Railroad, the Laurel Railway (both located in the northeastern Tennessee county of Johnson), the Virginia¿Carolina Railway (the ¿Virginia Creeper¿), the logging of the Pond Mountain area of Ashe County, North Carolina, by the Damascus Lumber Company, and the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s logging operations in the Elkland (present-day Todd) area of Ashe County.
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Page : 1952 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Lumber trade
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