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Foreword / by Harriott Hampton Faucette -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1825-35: Henry Buck of Bucksport, Maine, establishes the first steam sawmill in South Carolina -- 1835-60: Buck's mills become the largest supplier of South Carolina lumber to the shipbuilders of Maine -- 1860-75: the Buck family survives the Civil War and resumes lumber shipments to the north -- The legacy of the Henrietta and Northeastern shipbuilding -- 1885-1900: the decline of Bucksville and the Buck family's lumber mills -- 1900-30: the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, the largest lumber mill east of the Mississippi River -- International Paper Company in Georgetown, the largest single paper mill in the world -- Conservation and forest restoration in lowcountry South Carolina -- Epilogue: summer in the swamps of lowcountry South Carolina -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. |
