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The Fine Art of Tree Farming

The Fine Art of Tree Farming Lynn Dickerson Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1993, pp. 38-43 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436011/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:19 GMT from JHU Libraries The Fine Art of Tree Farming Lynn Dickerson I am an Appalachian tree farmer. I grow trees for pleasure and for profit. The land that I farm lies a few miles from the headwaters of Tinker Creek on a north slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Botetourt County, Virginia. In the 1840s my property was part of the Cloverdale Furnace tract, six thousand acres of mountain land that supplied the new iron furnace on Back Creek with charcoal, limestone, and ore. In 1860 Martin McFallen bought one hundred and forty-two acres of the furnace property on the Back Creek road for farmland. In 1872 he sold the property to Joel B. Lemon. In 1910 seventy of the one hundred and forty-two acres went to Alice Lemon Price for orchard, pasture, and woodland. In 1952 Ruth Price Dickerson, my mother, bought the seventy acres. I purchased the property in 1956. I bought the land because I like to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Fine Art of Tree Farming

Dickerson, Lynn C.
Appalachian Review , Volume 21 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Lynn Dickerson Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1993, pp. 38-43 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436011/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:19 GMT from JHU Libraries The Fine Art of Tree Farming Lynn Dickerson I am an Appalachian tree farmer. I grow trees for pleasure and for profit. The land that I farm lies a few miles from the headwaters of Tinker Creek on a north slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Botetourt County, Virginia. In the 1840s my property was part of the Cloverdale Furnace tract, six thousand acres of mountain land that supplied the new iron furnace on Back Creek with charcoal, limestone, and ore. In 1860 Martin McFallen bought one hundred and forty-two acres of the furnace property on the Back Creek road for farmland. In 1872 he sold the property to Joel B. Lemon. In 1910 seventy of the one hundred and forty-two acres went to Alice Lemon Price for orchard, pasture, and woodland. In 1952 Ruth Price Dickerson, my mother, bought the seventy acres. I purchased the property in 1956. I bought the land because I like to

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