Source: Reid Creager, NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/27/16

Alan Weakley treasures a geography book from 1810 that he inherited from his great-grandfather. “When you look under North Carolina, the first seven exports that are listed – tar, pitch, turpentine, resin, boards, scantling and shingles – are all products derived from longleaf pine"...

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