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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

Contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Editors’ Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Caroline Grego
  5. CHAPTER 1
  6. “A Town of Their Own”: Southern Lumber, Black Labor, and the Promise of African American Community at Ferguson, South Carolina, 1890–1916
  7. Jordan E. Davis
  8. CHAPTER 2
  9. Expert Adviser: Daisy Priscilla Smith Edgerton and Early Forest Conservation in South Carolina
  10. Al Hester
  11. CHAPTER 3
  12. “A Question of Community Salvation”: How Sumter, South Carolina, Came to Dominate the Wood Products Industry
  13. Jessica I. Elfenbein
  14. CHAPTER 4
  15. Poinsett State Park: A Landscape of Recreation, Racism, and Conservation in Sumter, South Carolina
  16. Maggie Kemp
  17. CHAPTER 5
  18. An Independent Force for Change: The Holly Hill Lumber Company
  19. Mark Kinzer
  20. CHAPTER 6
  21. Conservation in Four Holes Swamp: Norman Brunswig and Beidler Forest
  22. T. Robert Hart
  23. CHAPTER 7
  24. “Redwoods of the East”: Conservation, Ecology, and the Meanings of History at Congaree, 1930–76
  25. Thomas M. Lekan
  26. CHAPTER 8
  27. Seven Hours of the Santee Cooper Century: Cycling Through the “Wood Basket of the World” on the Palmetto Trail, March 2024
  28. Kent B. Germany
  29. Afterword
  30. Julian Buxton III
  31. Acknowledgments
  32. Contributors
  33. Index

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