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Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge UP, 1989), a major scholarly study; Wilson, Donald A. Logging and lumbering in Maine (Arcadia Publishing, 2001) online. Wood, Richard G. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1820-1861 (U of Maine Press, 1971) Wynn, Graeme. "On the History of Lumbering in Northeastern America, 1820-1960."
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, Texas. There are one district and nine individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Two individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks while the district contains more.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Guadalupe County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Guadalupe County, Texas .
The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, north of the central business district.A 98-acre (40 ha) portion encompassing much of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in 1976. [1]
Obed Hussey circa 1850 Poster for Hussey's Reaping Machine. Obed Hussey (1792–1860) was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick.
The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May Be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap (New York: Greenberg, 1931), popular. Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Cyrus Hall McCormick and the reaper (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909) online; Winder, Gordon M. (2016) [2013]. The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910 ...
A scythe consists of a shaft about 170 centimetres (67 in) long called a snaith, snath, snathe or sned, traditionally made of wood but now sometimes metal. Simple snaiths are straight with offset handles, others have an "S" curve or are steam bent in three dimensions to place the handles in an ergonomic configuration but close to the shaft. The ...
This area of Nacogdoches County was settled by immigrants from the Old South in the 1830s and was known as Jacobs, then later called King's Store. In 1886, a post office was established and the community was named Woden, after the Old English deity Woden.