Record #:

3325

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

As forests were exhausted in the North, logging companies moved South. Between 1885 and 1925, Buffalo City, located in the Great Alligator Swamp in Dare and Tyrrell Counties, was one of the state's busiest sawmill towns.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , May/June 1997, p19-21, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Buffalo City--History; Lumbering--Dare County--History; Lumbering--Tyrrell County--History; Sawmill workers

Record #:

14530

Author(s):

Webb, Mack

Abstract:

At one time Gaston, Buffalo City, Williamsboro, Waynesboro, Brunswick, Sneedsboro, Parkewood, and Tuckertown were thriving and prosperous communities. Then along came business and transportation changes, with the result that these towns and others had to fold up.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 17, Sept 1945, p11

Subject(s):

Village communities; Buffalo City--History; Williamsboro--History; Gaston--History; Waynesboro--History; Brunswick--History

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