Term: Black River pinery
Definition:
Description from John W. Hunt's 1853 Wisconsin Gazetteer: "... is on Black river, and its tributaries mostly in La Crosse and Jackson counties. The amount of lumber manufactured in this section, aside from square timber, lath, and shingles, is shown by the following estimate:
Angle's Mills, on La Crosse river 500.000
La Crosse Mills, 2,000,000
Nichols, 800,000
Douglass, 1,000,000
Polley's, 500,000
Robinson's, 500,000
Valentine's, 800,000
Shephard's,
Patterson's, 500,000
Perry's, 800,000
Spaulding's, 500,000
Wm. Levice's Mills, 1,800,000
John Levice's, 800,000
Hall's, 800,000
Johnson's, 300,000
Blanchard's, 300,000
Bailey's, 300,000
Clarke's, 500,000
Whipple's, 800,000
O'Neall's, 500,000
Cowley's, 800,000
Eaton's, 500,000
Total 14,500,000"
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[Source: Hunt, John W. Wisconsin Gazetteer (Madison, 1853)]
