Lumber Workers

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Workers for the Swainsboro Lumber Company in Emanuel County pose with timber, circa 1935. The company operated for approximately twenty years as part of the community's thriving lumber industry, which began in the 1870s with the arrival of the railroad.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # emn052.

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