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

Subject(s):

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