Monroe County Logging

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Employees of the Gus Stuart Logging Company in Monroe County load freshly cut lumber in 1952. The timber industry became an important part of the county's economy in the mid-twentieth century after the demise of the cotton industy.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Monroe County Logging

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