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Edmund Ruffin observed that Southern longleaf pines "were deformed by being skinned for extracting turpentine". This tree was the primary source of scrape (sap) for rosin, pitch, turpentine, black caulk, tar and any other waterproof and sticky thing needed for paving or boats of any size. Other “yellow” pines also produced fair amounts but not as much as the hearty longleaf, which could stand up to the abuse of the process. It took many years to work a mature tree to exhaustion, that is until the Professors Herty’s acid process three decades after the war. I’m not sure if Virginia can be considered a naval stores production center. A consumer of naval stores but not a primary manufacturer.
Snatch up a copy of Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South by Robert B. Outland III, LSU Press, 2004. This native Tarheel pretty much covers everything you need to know about the sooty industry.
Edmund Ruffin observed that Southern longleaf pines "were deformed by being skinned for extracting turpentine". This tree was the primary source of scrape (sap) for rosin, pitch, turpentine, black caulk, tar and any other waterproof and sticky thing needed for paving or boats of any size. Other “yellow” pines also produced fair amounts but not as much as the hearty longleaf, which could stand up to the abuse of the process. It took many years to work a mature tree to exhaustion, that is until the Professors Herty’s acid process three decades after the war. I’m not sure if Virginia can be considered a naval stores production center. A consumer of naval stores but not a primary manufacturer.
Snatch up a copy of Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South by Robert B. Outland III, LSU Press, 2004. This native Tarheel pretty much covers everything you need to know about the sooty industry.
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