November 29, 2011

The economy of Calhoun County did not recover from the devastation of the Civil War until the coming of the railroad in the 1880s. The new transportation system jump-started the harvesting of virgin timber in the county. Logging crews such as the one shown here were part of an industry that produced an estimated thirty-six million board feet of lumber by 1890.

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