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Lumbering and tanning were important early industries.
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Lumbering was the predominant industry in the St. Croix River Valley in the second half of the 19th century, and for many years logs were sent down the St. Croix, collected at the St. Croix Boom Site two miles upstream of Stillwater, and processed in Stillwater's many sawmills.
Lumbering and cattle raising were the chief industries until James E. Berry helped establish a drainage system to make rice a major crop.
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Lumbering, once an important industry, has been much restricted since the establishment of the State Park in 1892.
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Lumbering and the logging industry has played a vital role in Smethport ’ s economy for Smethport ’ s entire history.
Lumbering was the only industry of this area, with the exception of a small mining operation run by William Pentecost, which supplied only sufficient coal to neighboring farmers for winter fuel.
Originally called Little Falls in the 1870s, the community was established by the Union Lumbering Company along the Chippewa River and came to be known as Holcombe years later.
Lumbering trailed off at the turn of the 20th century, but the town has continued to take advantage of its position along those bodies of water with a major paper mill ( Kimberly Clark ), and other plants such as: Marinette Marine, a shipyard owned by the Italian firm, Fincantieri ; Ansul / Tyco, a manufacturer of fire protection systems ; ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Foundry and Karl Schmidt Unisia, Inc., cast and machined automotive parts ; and Silvan Industries, a manufacturer of pressure vessels and part of the Samuel Pressure Vessel Group.
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By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.
As chromium compounds were used in dyes and paints and the tanning of leather, these compounds are often found in soil and groundwater at abandoned industrial sites, now needing environmental cleanup and remediation per the treatment of brownfield land.
Urea-formaldehyde resins were also used in this tanning method until dissatisfaction about the formation of free formaldehyde was realized.
Also situated in this general area were vats for dyeing wool and tanning leather, and primitive looms for weaving.
Many unsavoury activities ( banned in the City ) were also undertaken, such as tanning and fulling-the cleaning of felt cloth using urine.
Industries such as cloth, blanket and shoe-making, tanning, timber cutting, and pottery were fostered.
For 200 years, Loon op Zand and Kaatsheuvel were the centre of the leather tanning and shoe manufacturing industry of the region.
Some early industries were tanning and shoe-making, while other businessmen manufactured farm equipment, bricks, barrels, boats, furniture, pottery, and buttons.
Once many of the hemlock trees were taken out, and tanning practices changed, the tannery closed and Stony Creek's population decreased significantly and has remained at lower levels since then.
Coal mining, tanning, and the manufacture of fire bricks were the industries at the turn of the 20th century.
Other products shipped from Inwood via the CVRR were wood products, such as bark ( for tanning ) and railroad ties from the area west of the town.
In some variations of the process, cedar oil, alum or tannin were applied to the skin as a tanning agent.
Many leather tanning pits dating to the 17th and 18th centuries were found on the Park Street car park site.
Here, just as in Southern Europe, the demands of more intensive agriculture and the invention of the plough, trading, mining and smelting, tanning, building and construction in the growing towns and constant warfare, including the demands of naval shipbuilding, were more important forces behind the destruction of the forests than was shifting cultivation.
Reference to the forest descriptions of early surveyors has documented decline in species such as hemlock, which were preferentially removed for leather tanning.
Chepstow reached the peak of its importance during the Napoleonic Wars, when its exports of timber, for ships, and bark, for leather tanning, were especially vital.
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