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“Florida played a huge role in the turpentine industry from the mid 1800s to the 1940s. Let’s take this gum cup to the Tallahassee Museum. There we can learn more about the turpentine industry at the B. O. Wood commissary.” |
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“Groups of men walked through the woods using tools like these to cut faces in the trees and transfer the gum to barrels."
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illustrator: Bill Otersen
writer: Sarah Wagoner