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Norfolk's Forests, 1819
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The vastness of trees that once grew throughout the current city limits but that have since been consumed is hinted at by this comment made in 1819 about the advantages to be had by creating a proposed canal from the Borough to Tanner’s Creek:

"[I]t will be the means of a ready and inexhaustible supply of timber, fire wood andHampton Roads Times Magazine HamptonRoadsTimes.com wharf wood, with which the country in the neighborhood abounds, and which can only be brought to market now by carting it a tedious distance, or lightering it up the creek a long way, and thence through an exposed navigation round Lambert’s Point.  The great consumption of pine wood in making wharves and turning bricks, but above all, the immense quantity daily consumed by the steam boats (of which there are now four constantly running) and the two steam mills, is a consideration almost sufficient of itself to justify the opening of this communication."
(Norfolk Herald, March 24, 1819)


  




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