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FOREST ACTIVITIES AND INDUSTRIES
from same book...
Charcoal
1740-1960
A large but uncounted number of coaling sites remain throughout the Pinelands; these sites can be discerned by the almost total absence of vegetation and the presence of scattered charcoal. No known coaling cabins exist.
Charcoal was vital to the iron furnaces, and after 1850, was used primarily for fuel and cooking. Forests were stripped of young growth and burned over to provide pine for coal, thus helping create the forest landscapes which are presently on the land.
Rural residents, mostly Pineys, both black and white, are associated with coaling. In the 19th century newly arrived immigrants, often Irish or German, became colliers; at that time master colliers could make considerable amounts of money from their work.
Currently defunct. The last colliers from Whiting quit work in the 1970s. The charcoal industry had been declining for one hundred years prior to that time.
from same book...
Charcoal
1740-1960
A large but uncounted number of coaling sites remain throughout the Pinelands; these sites can be discerned by the almost total absence of vegetation and the presence of scattered charcoal. No known coaling cabins exist.
Charcoal was vital to the iron furnaces, and after 1850, was used primarily for fuel and cooking. Forests were stripped of young growth and burned over to provide pine for coal, thus helping create the forest landscapes which are presently on the land.
Rural residents, mostly Pineys, both black and white, are associated with coaling. In the 19th century newly arrived immigrants, often Irish or German, became colliers; at that time master colliers could make considerable amounts of money from their work.
Currently defunct. The last colliers from Whiting quit work in the 1970s. The charcoal industry had been declining for one hundred years prior to that time.