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To: PeaRidge
Your prior reference to lumber likely was to Georgia Live Oak used in shipbuilding and piers.

No that is incorrect. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t any ship building going on in Barbados. Barbados had overplanted the entire island with sugar cane and was virtually denuded of trees. The plantation owners financed a trip North in search of wood. The wood was needed for firing up the sugar refineries and for construction. They ended up in Charleston.

61 posted on 03/09/2021 6:37:05 PM PST by HandyDandy
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To: HandyDandy

what is incorrect?


63 posted on 03/10/2021 8:04:27 AM PST by PeaRidge
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