Everything about Weymouth Woods-sandhills Nature Preserve totally explained
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve is a
state park in
Moore County,
North Carolina in the
United States. Located near
Southern Pines, North Carolina, it covers 898 acres (3.6 km²) in the
Sandhills region of the state.
History
In the mid-1700s, when
Scottish Highlanders settled in the Sandhills region, the vast forest consisted of original growth longleaf pines that reached heights of 100 to 120 feet. Merchants cut the forests for timber and cultivated choice stands for use as masts for the Royal Navy ships. Merchants also harvested resin from the longleaf pines for the naval stores industry. Resin from longleaf pine yielded four basic products: tar, pitch, turpentine and rosin.
By
1850, North Carolina's pine forests were producing one-third of the world's supply of naval stores.
Resin collected from elongated, inverted V-shaped cuts in the tree trunks was distilled into
turpentine. Turpentine was used as a solvent and illuminant.
Tar,
pitch and
rosin were used for sealing the hulls, decks, masts, ropes and riggings of sailing vessels.
When railroads arrived in the Sandhills in the 1870s, large-scale logging and lumbering began. As a result of logging and naval stores operations, most of the virgin growth of longleaf pines had disappeared from the Sandhills by
1900. Many of the older trees that survive today bear prominent scars of this human exploitation.
Early in the
20th century, the grandfather of James Boyd, a well-known North Carolina author, purchased a substantial tract of land east of Southern Pines to save the longleaf pines from logging. He named the estate Weymouth because the pines reminded him of trees in
Weymouth,
England. In April
1963, Boyd's widow, Katharine, donated 403 acres of land to the state, establishing the first natural area in the North Carolina state parks system. Additional land has been acquired, including a satellite area of 153 acres known as the Boyd Round Timber Tract, which was added in
1977.
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