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A History of Logging and Wood Milling in Brazoria County, Texas
By James Smith
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Many people in Brazoria County, Texas, are unaware that a lumbering industry exists or has ever existed in the county. Books and other publications have written about the countys other industries and enterprises such as chemicals, sulfur, oil, rice, cattle, and shrimping.
A History of Logging and Wood Milling in Brazoria County, Texas, by author James Smith, offers a comprehensive and historical look at wood harvesting and processing in Brazoria County. It begins in 2500 BCE and addresses the industry through 2015. With photographs and illustrations included, Smith, who worked as a surveyor, shares details of what has happened in the forests that cover one-fourth to one-third of the surface in Brazoria County.
Offering a look at the last 200 years of the industry, Smith presents a good review of the literature relating to the local trees and commercial enterprises related to their harvesting and briefly examines the future viability of logging and wood milling.
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A History of Logging and Wood Milling in Brazoria County, Texas - James Smith
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ISBN: 978-1-4917-9956-7 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016911518
iUniverse rev. date: 12/05/2016
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
About the author
Chapter 1 Pre- Columbus To Stephen F. Austin
Chapter 2 Stephen F. Austin to the Civil War
Chapter 3 Reconstruction to World War I
Chapter 4 After World War I
Chapter 5 Progress in Safety and Technology
Chapter 6 Prospects
Chapter 7 Commercially important trees native to Brazoria County
Footnotes
Bibliography
Maps
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Mr. J.C. Driskill.
(1905-1991)
He was an instructor in the Brazosport Independent School District from 1946-1991.
He taught students the basic life science principles and drivers education. He is, unfortunately, almost forgotten in the Brazosport area, except by the many students that he taught so well.
Preface
This book came to be because the author loves two things, history and trees. The love of history was probably born in him. The love of trees came when his seventh grade biology teacher, Mr. J.C. Driskill, took a seventh grade life science around the Lake Jackson, Texas Junior High School campus. He pointed out the different species of and explained, to some extent what their value was.
By that time, I knew what a saw-mill was. I further grew in forestry knowledge having been in the Boy Scouts of America. In that organization the three lower ranks have some rudimentary requirements about nature and conservation.
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