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18. Old wooden barrels
with stave, made by coopers, and the newer industrial metal barrels
which replaced them, used for the collection of gum in the woods, on the
site of the McCranie Turpentine Still, Willacoochee. Photo by Tim
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19. Another angle of
the McCranie Turpentine Still shows the rosin shed to the right and the
gum skids to the left. Photo by Tim Prizer, 2003.
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20. Former turpentiner
Gillis Carter of Willacoochee stands in front of a tractor at the
McCranie Turpentine Still site. In front of him is an old whet stone,
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21. A look at the
abandoned buildings that were once the Varn Turpentine Still in
Hoboken. The Varn family has been in naval stores since right after the
Civil War. They bought the Larkin still in Hoboken and had stilling
operations until 1982. The Varns were the first in Georgia to utilize
the new steam distillation techniques developed at the Olustee (Florida)
Naval Stores Laboratory, which replaced the old fire stilling process.
Photo by Tim Prizer, 2003. |
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22. Some windswept and
rusted turpentine gum barrels standing on the property that formerly
held the Varn turpentine still in Hoboken (at the corner of Highway 82
and Highway 121). Photo by Tim Prizer, 2003. |
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23. The Varn Sawmill in
Hoboken continued the Varn family association with the forest industry
after their naval stores operation closed. Project interviewees Willie
White and Ralph Wilkerson worked first in the Varn turpentine operation
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24.The
last commercial still in the U.S. was operated by the Netherlands-based
Akzo Nobel Company in Baxley, Georgia. Here, the last barrels of
domestic turpentine in the U.S., from Soperton Naval Stores, are
unloaded, August 2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry
Commission Magazine.
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25. Weighing the last
barrels of domestic turpentine in the U.S., from Soperton Naval Stores,
at the Akzo Nobel still, Baxley, August, 2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey
courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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26. Processing
the last barrels, using the modern steam distillation techniques, Akzo
Nobel still, Baxley, August, 2001. This is the end of an era for gum
naval stores in Georgia and the United States. Photo by Bill Godfrey
courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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27. Processing
the last barrels, using the modern steam distillation techniques, Akzo
Nobel still, Baxley, August, 2001. This is the end of an era for gum
naval stores in Georgia and the United States. Photo by Bill Godfrey
courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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28. Processing
the last barrels, using the modern steam distillation techniques, Akzo
Nobel still, Baxley, August, 2001. This is the end of an era for gum
naval stores in Georgia and the United States. Photo by Bill Godfrey
courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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Turpentine Stills:
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