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Barrels of naval stores—materials extracted from southern pine forests used in the construction and repair of sailing vessels—wait to be loaded onto schooners at the Downing Company dock, ca. 1890. Georgia was the world's leading producer of naval stores in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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