Longleaf Pine Planting GHM 099-6 Meriwether CO.
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N 32° 50.591 W 084° 42.076
16S E 715141 N 3636243
Longleaf Pine Planting State Historical Marker
Located on Ga. 190 just west of Ga. 85W intersection in Meriwether County
Waymark Code: WM3VNZ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2008
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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