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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."
As of 1999 Texas was the tenth largest timber producing state in the nation. [3] The primary wood product is the Southern yellow pine largely supplying the housing sector in the state. [3] Cities like Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Beaumont, and Marshall still have large lumber firms that make up a substantial portion of their economies.
The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.
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.
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 ...
One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450-1475) A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.
Jul. 10—AUSTIN — Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for April 2024 came from 163,674 oil wells and 84,739 gas wells, a ...
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.