charcoal-manufacture

Updated: May 17, 2025

The business of legitimate charcoal-manufacture is also largely practised in the Pines, although the growing value of wood interferes sadly with the coalers. Here and there, however, a few acres are marked out every year for charring, and the coal-pits are established in the clearing made by felling the trees.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859