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Re: db7 post# 121

Wednesday, 11/18/2015 4:43:24 PM

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 4:43:24 PM

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You're welcome. It appears that Consolidated Naval Stores owned a lot of land in Polk and Highlands Counties in the first half of the century. The naval stores industry was a big deal in the pine forests that stretched from Lake Okeechobee well into Georgia. If I were to hazard a guess any pollutants would probably be turpentine distillates. That would have been normal given the lax or lack of environmental standards at the time. Looking thru "A History of the Lands Composing the Avon Park Bombing
Range" (1983), it seems that Consolidated would extract naval stores, then log the area and finally turn it into cattle grazing land.


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