Lost Buffalo City (Images of America)

R.Wayne Gray, Nancy Beach Gray

ISBN 10: 1467129003 / ISBN 13: 9781467129008

Editore: Arcadia Publishing, 2018

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Riassunto:

Buffalo City got its name when a company from Buffalo, New York, implemented plans for a massive logging operation of 168,000 acres of ancient cypress and juniper trees in a swampy area of the Dare County mainland in eastern North Carolina in 1888. It was an exciting time as 300 Russians, as well as local black and white men, began to cut timber and lay 100 miles of train tracks for locomotives to transport the logs out of the forest. A town was soon built with approximately 50 houses, a hotel, post office, school, general store, and church. While it was not considered a "city," it was the largest town in Dare County at the time. When the timber boom was over 20 years later and jobs were scarce, the place was the ideal location for making illegal whiskey, and it soon became known as the moonshine capital of the world. Today, nothing remains of the boomtown. The forest has reclaimed the land.

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Titolo: Lost Buffalo City (Images of America)
Casa editrice: Arcadia Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good