North Carolina and the Turpentine Trail

Historian David Cecelski writes about North Carolina losing its stranglehold on the naval stores industry after the American Civil War, forcing workers to follow the "turpentine trail" in search of untapped longleaf pine forests in other southern states.

North Carolina acquired the nickname, “the Tar Heel State” due to its relationship with tar, pitch and turpentine. The occupation was considered a

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