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Author Maysilles, Duncan.

Title Ducktown smoke : the fight over one of the south's greatest environmental disasters / Duncan Maysilles
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction : the view from the mountain -- The setting, the Cherokees, and the first era of Ducktown mining, 1843-1878 -- The revival of Ducktown mining and the first smoke suits, 1890-1903 -- The farmers and the copper companies wage battle in the Tennessee courts -- Georgia enters the fray -- The Ducktown desert and Georgia's first smoke suit -- Will Shippen, forestry, and Georgia's second smoke suit, 1905-1907 -- Attorney general Hart, the National Farmers Union, and the search for a remedy, 1907-1910 -- The smoke injunction and the great war, 1914-1918 -- Power dams, whitewater rafting, and the reclamation of the Ducktown desert, 1916-2010 -- Epilogue : the view from the mountain
Summary In 'Ducktown Smoke', Duncan Maysilles offers a summary of the environmental devastation caused by sulfur dioxide pollution in a Southern Appalachian mountain basin in the late 19th century. A byproduct of the smelting practices of two copper mining giants operating in Tennessee, toxic smoke, combined with destructive logging by the industry, gradually laid waste to timber stocks and crops, most of which were in neighbouring Georgia. It also gave rise to decades of litigation - more than 250 private nuisance actions were filed against the copper companies in a 25-year period by residents, loggers, and farmers
Analysis Ducktown Mining District
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index
Notes English
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Subject Liability for environmental damages -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Liability for environmental damages -- Tennessee -- Ducktown (Polk County) Region
Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Tennessee -- Ducktown (Polk County) Region
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects
Liability for environmental damages
SUBJECT Georgia -- Trials, litigation, etc
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
Georgia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807877937
080787793X
9781469603155
1469603152