Longleaf Pine Planting
State Historical Marker
Located on Ga. 190 just west of Ga. 85W intersection
in Meriwether County
32.84919, -84.70126
(Text)
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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