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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • bf53490 said:
    I wonder what this looks like now. I live in Tennessee and would like to see what this area is like present day.
  • Pat Henson said:
    It's pretty much restored. I grew up here, and when the plant closed down in the late '80's, the earth reapired itself pretty quickly.
  • Randy Garbin said:
    Doesn't look all that much restored from this image: www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=ducktown,+tn&mkt=en-...
  • Red Necks know stuff said:
    This is the caption that Marion Post Walcott included with her photo from 1939 but the actual damage to the vegetation occurred in the late 1800's. The smelting technology of that time did not allow the sulfur dioxide generated by the heating of the ore to be captured. By 1909 the mining companies developed new practices which let them recover the sulfur dioxide and use it in the manufacture of sulfuric acid. Reclamation in the Basin began in the 1930's with varying degrees of success initially. By the 1970's new techniques were developed and today most of the Basin has been revegetated.

A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Red Necks know stuff said:
    This is the caption that Marion Post Walcott included with her photo from 1939 but the actual damage to the vegetation occurred in the late 1800's. The smelting technology of that time did not allow the sulfur dioxide generated by the heating of the ore to be captured. By 1909 the mining companies developed new practices which let them recover the sulfur dioxide and use it in the manufacture of sulfuric acid. Reclamation in the Basin began in the 1930's with varying degrees of success initially. By the 1970's new techniques were developed and today most of the Basin has been revegetated.

Planting corn along a river in Tennessee (LOC)

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  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Except that the tractor is pulling a set of harrows, not a drilling machine. Preparation for planting corn perhaps?
  • artpease said:
    Yup, harrowing to prepare the ground and the planter is way at the upper end of the field [based on an earlier photo].
  • Ancient Agreement said:
    the implement being pulled is a "disc" or "disc harrow" or "disc cultivator" depending on what part of the country you are from. www.everythingattachments.com/tractor-field-garden-disc-h... A "drill" is used to plant small grain crops in very narrow rows, 3 or 4 inches. Planting corn requires a "corn planter" www.binkleyhurst.com/Sales/kinze_page.htm which is also used to plant soy beans. Currently common planting spacing is corn planted in 30 inch rows and soybeans in 15 inch rows. I was a farm boy from 1950 to 1965 and operated this type of machinery.