Longleaf Pine Planting
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LONGLEAF PINE PLANTING. In the early years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's sojourn in Meriwether County, he observed that no great effort was made to replace trees on cut-over or burnt areas not suitable for agriculture. As a demonstration of replacement, together with erosion and water-shed control, he devoted a little over five acres of his farm to the planting of 5000 longleaf pine seedlings, in the winter season of 1929-1930.
The plantings were made in the area immediately south of this marker. A tornado in 1954 destroyed about half the original stand. 099-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957
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