Turpentine Farmers

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Turpentine farmer workers chip the bark from pine trees in Savannah, Ga. Appling County, which was known as the turpentine capital of the world during the nineteenth century. After the bark was removed, sap drained into the "cut box," a large hole at the bottom of the tree. Workers then placed the sap into wagon barrels and delivered the barrels by mule and wagon to a turpentine still.

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