Leviston Sawmill

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The Leviston Sawmill in Miller County, pictured between 1905 and 1910, produced lumber, rosin, and turpentine for the booming naval stores market. By the 1930s, the timber industry was also involved in the production of paper.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
mil002-82.

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Leviston Sawmill

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