Record #:

43949

Author(s):

Fueston, Vernon

Abstract:

Author Bill Barber has penned three volumes dealing with the lumber industry in northeastern North Carolina. He contends that lumber was the dominant and almost only industry of note in the are following the Civil War and through the 1920s. Barber's works are: Timber, Land and Rail Roads - A History of the John L. Roper Lumber Company; Buffalo City and the Blount Patent; Tyrrell Timber - A History of the Branning Manufacturing Company and the Richmond Cedar Works.

Source:

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 15 Issue 6, November 2023, p56-58, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Lumbering--Tyrrell County--History; Lumbering--History; Roper, John L. (lumbering); Buffalo City--History; Lumbering--Dare County--History; Lumbering--Washington County--History