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Wood Basket of the World: Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina’s Forests: Acknowledgments

Wood Basket of the World: Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina’s Forests
Acknowledgments

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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
    1. Figures
    2. Tables
  7. Editors’ Preface
  8. Introduction
    1. Notes
  9. Chapter 1: “A Town of Their Own”
    1. Along the Santee River
    2. Southern Lumber, Black Labor
    3. “The Gentle Art of Going Without”
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
  10. Chapter 2: Expert Adviser
    1. Early Forest Conservation in South Carolina, 1900–1922
    2. Women’s Leadership in Progressive-Era Conservation
    3. Opposition to Early Forest Conservation in South Carolina
    4. Daisy Priscilla Smith Edgerton’s Professional Life, 1890–1922
    5. Governor Wilson G. Harvey
    6. Edgerton’s Influence on South Carolina Forest Conservation, 1922–23
    7. Conclusion
    8. Notes
  11. Chapter 3: “A Question of Community Salvation”
    1. Big Lumber’s Big Start
    2. The Trees
    3. O. L. Williams and Chester F. Korn Arrive
    4. Planning Industrial Sumter
    5. South Carolina’s High Point?
    6. Funds for the Furniture Factory
    7. Becoming Williams Furniture
    8. Brooklyn Cooperage and Galloway-Pease
    9. Sumter’s “Largest and Most Important Industrial Enterprise”
    10. Galloway-Pease Arrives
    11. The Workers and Their Communities
    12. The Great Depression
    13. There Goes the Neighborhood
    14. Brooklyn Cooperage’s Ties to Santee-Cooper
    15. Sumter’s Wood Products Post–WWII
    16. Conclusion
    17. Notes
  12. Chapter 4: Poinsett State Park
    1. Overview of the Civilian Conservation Corps
      1. Race in the CCC
      2. The End of the CCC
    2. The Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina
      1. SC State Park System
      2. CCC Forestry Education in South Carolina
    3. The Origin of Poinsett State Park
      1. History in the High Hills
      2. Poinsett State Park Proposal
    4. Poinsett State Park Development
      1. Company 421
    5. Camp Life at Poinsett State Park
      1. Education
      2. Athletics
      3. Social Life
      4. Company 4475
      5. Company 2413
      6. Poinsett State Park Opens
    6. The Impact of Poinsett State Park
      1. Conservation at Poinsett
      2. Environmental Education
    7. Conclusion
    8. Notes
  13. Chapter 5: An Independent Force for Change
    1. Beginnings
    2. Logging by Rail and Road
    3. The Growth Years
    4. Industry Leadership and the Question of Wood Supply
    5. Confronting the Environmental Movement
    6. Takeover
    7. Aftermath
    8. Legacy of Holly Hill Lumber Company
    9. Notes
  14. Chapter 6: Conservation in Four Holes Swamp
    1. Four Holes’s Past
    2. Norman Brunswig’s Early Years at Beidler Forest
    3. Inspiring the Public
    4. Expanding Conservation in Four Holes Swamp
    5. Brunswig’s Legacy
    6. Notes
  15. Chapter 7: “Redwoods of the East”
    1. Harry Hampton and the Origins of the Congaree Preservation Movement, 1930–59
    2. Ecology, Preservation, and the National Park Service
    3. Congaree Action Now! Student Activists in the 1970s Campaign
    4. The Politics of History and Memory in the Swamp
    5. Notes
  16. Chapter 8: Seven Hours of the Santee Cooper Century
    1. Corridors
    2. Memory Is an Action Word
    3. Accelerating Through the Santee Cooper Century
    4. The Santee Cooper Barrier
    5. Beyond the Bridges, Behind the Pine Curtains
    6. The Outdoors as Historical Source
    7. The Palmetto Trail of Sand
    8. Small Towns and Community
    9. Eutawville
    10. Witness Trees
    11. The Ditch as Archive
    12. The Edge
    13. Darkness
    14. Notes
  17. Afterword
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Contributors
  20. Index

Acknowledgments

Page 251 →An anthology is a collaborative enterprise. The editors thank all of the contributors to this volume. We are also indebted to many of our USC and community-history colleagues who, through their thoughtful contributions, made possible the multifaceted enterprise also known as “Wood Basket of the World: Lumbering, Manufacturing, and Conserving South Carolina’s Forest.” At the University of South Carolina, we are grateful to David Banush, Kate Boyd, Lori Carey, Holly Crocker, Leigh-Ann Hansell, Katie Hoskins, Andrea L’Hommedieu, Brandon King, Tom Lekan, Charlie Pierce, Lynn Robertson, Nathan Saunders, and Pat Sullivan. Edward Blessing and Graham Duncan provided critical help early on. Thanks also go to the dozens of USC undergraduate and graduate students who, through class projects, participated in a variety of ways. Rachel Young, Stevie Malenowski, and Gracie Bellah were especially helpful. USC Press’s Ehren Foley and Michael McGandy have been champions of Wood Basket for years and we appreciate their patience and support.

Our community partners made this work a joy. Thanks to Randy Akers, South Carolina Humanities Council; Eliza Buxton, Sumter Economic Development; Annie Rivers, Sumter Museum; Kyle Kelly, City of Sumter; John Grego, Friends of Congaree Swamp; Jonathan Manchester, National Park Service (Congaree National Park); Frank Edwards, Williams-Brice-Edwards Charitable Trust; Frank Beidler, Francis Beidler Foundation; and Matt Johnson, South Carolina Audubon. Railroad historian Tom Fetters generously shared his findings.

We are also grateful for the love and support of our families and thankful to have had the opportunity to work together on this anthology which we hope will spur new thinking and new research to help us all understand not only the rich history of lumber, wood products and forest conservation in South Carolina, but its important national ties to towns and cities as far-flung as Grand Rapids, Bay City, and Muskegon, MI; Chicago, IL; Brooklyn and Tonawanda, NY; Harvey, LA; Poplar Bluff, MO; High Point and Galax, NC; Washington, DC, and many other places. We hope that the work here inspires others to tell a bigger story.

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