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FOREST ACTIVITIES AND INDUSTRIES
(from and article by John Sinton, richard Regensburg and Budd Wilson in History, culture and archeology of the pine barrens: essays from the third pine barrens conference.
Sawmills
1700-present
More than 50 sites exist throughout the region. No known mills prior to 1900 are extant. Batsto has a restored 19th century sawmill in operaion.
Sawmills are often the sites of earliest settlement in the Pinelands. Timber was both an important source of cash and necessary for shelter. All major Pinelands industries--shipbuilding, iron, glass, cotton, and paper--required wood. Because early sawmills could not be moved permanent pioneering commuinities grew up around them. With the advent of steam powered mills in the 1870s, mills could be moved; mobile gasoline-powered mills still exist (I wonder where?)
Long-time rural residents generally ran and still do run sawmills throughout the region.
The number of small mills has declined drastically since the 1930s because it has become more economically feasible to cut the timber and truck the logs outside othe Pinelands to large sawmills. A small number of mills, however, will continue to exist in the region to supply local needs for housing and boat construction.
(from and article by John Sinton, richard Regensburg and Budd Wilson in History, culture and archeology of the pine barrens: essays from the third pine barrens conference.
Sawmills
1700-present
More than 50 sites exist throughout the region. No known mills prior to 1900 are extant. Batsto has a restored 19th century sawmill in operaion.
Sawmills are often the sites of earliest settlement in the Pinelands. Timber was both an important source of cash and necessary for shelter. All major Pinelands industries--shipbuilding, iron, glass, cotton, and paper--required wood. Because early sawmills could not be moved permanent pioneering commuinities grew up around them. With the advent of steam powered mills in the 1870s, mills could be moved; mobile gasoline-powered mills still exist (I wonder where?)
Long-time rural residents generally ran and still do run sawmills throughout the region.
The number of small mills has declined drastically since the 1930s because it has become more economically feasible to cut the timber and truck the logs outside othe Pinelands to large sawmills. A small number of mills, however, will continue to exist in the region to supply local needs for housing and boat construction.