Turpentine Still

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A worker operates a turpentine still in Hinesville during the 1930s. The decade was one of growing prosperity for the community, which steadily recovered from the devastation of the Civil War.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # lib011.

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Turpentine Still

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