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Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands

Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the... ESSAY Oldest living Confederate Chaplain Tells All? Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands by David S. Cecelski r ^^Ê M piney woods of Onslow County, North Carolina. The Rich _ ^^^^H Lands had been one of the great plantations in the naval stores I ^^^h ecently I toured the former site of the Rich Lands in the old ' ^^L ^^| industry of the Old South. John Avirett and more than 1 2 5 _^^^^_^^ slaves built a kingdom out of the long-leaf pine's resinous gum, producing rivers of turpentine, tar, pitch, and rosin whose swelling tides literally carried sailing vessels to every continent on earth. Succeeded long ago by corporate timberlands and loblolly thickets, the Rich Lands once sprawled across more than 22,000 acres just southeast of what is now the small farm town of Richlands, fourteen miles from the Adantic coast. With the help of Dennis Jones, a local historian and educator, I went in search of the Rich Lands' former glory. Poking around pine woods, we found circular imprints of old tar pits still scarring the earth. Dennis showed me a sticky layer of rosin residue by the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands

Southern Cultures , Volume 3 (4) – Jan 4, 1997

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ESSAY Oldest living Confederate Chaplain Tells All? Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands by David S. Cecelski r ^^Ê M piney woods of Onslow County, North Carolina. The Rich _ ^^^^H Lands had been one of the great plantations in the naval stores I ^^^h ecently I toured the former site of the Rich Lands in the old ' ^^L ^^| industry of the Old South. John Avirett and more than 1 2 5 _^^^^_^^ slaves built a kingdom out of the long-leaf pine's resinous gum, producing rivers of turpentine, tar, pitch, and rosin whose swelling tides literally carried sailing vessels to every continent on earth. Succeeded long ago by corporate timberlands and loblolly thickets, the Rich Lands once sprawled across more than 22,000 acres just southeast of what is now the small farm town of Richlands, fourteen miles from the Adantic coast. With the help of Dennis Jones, a local historian and educator, I went in search of the Rich Lands' former glory. Poking around pine woods, we found circular imprints of old tar pits still scarring the earth. Dennis showed me a sticky layer of rosin residue by the

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Published: Jan 4, 1997

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