Today I want to highlight two historical photographs of loggers in the Great Dismal Swamp. In the foreground of one of the photographs, we can see a man named Willis Warren Powell. His great-grandson shared the photographs and his family's stories with me.
Corapeake N.C.
Of Oysters and Chicken Grit
One other historic use of oyster shells was especially important to farm women on the North Carolina coast and beyond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Building roads, fertilizing fields and making cement, mortar, plaster and whitewash out of oyster shells were all big parts of coastal life. But so was using crushed oyster shells in poultry yards.
David Cecelski 