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The Catface Country Turpentine Festival PLACES Examples of catfaces on display at The Catface Country the Bobby Ronald Newton Turpentine Museum. On the left is a tree that was boxed; the other shows the cup-and- Turpentine Festival gutter system. Now nearly forty years old, the Catface Festival commemorates the town’s historic connection to the once vital naval stores industry, which had its heyday in Portal—the self- proclaimed “Turpentine City”—in the mid-twentieth century. At the festival, visitors can closely observe the entire turpentine manufacturing process and visit a turpentine museum.2 This Rockwellian small- town festival even has a parade replete with event-themed floats and beauty queens, a true throwback to an earlier time. It all makes for a fun and informative forest history outing. Portal (population 650) is an hour’s drive northwest of Savannah, and the festival is held in early October. THE NAVAL STORES INDUSTRY Products made from pine resin, such as turpentine, tar, and pitch for ships and household products like soap, are collectively known By Thomas J. Straka the community, while demonstrating as naval stores. Pitch and tar were Festival photographs by Patricia A. Straka the importance of safeguarding the essential for waterproofing ship hulls forests against destructive fires.”1 and decks and for preserving ships’ estivals across Turpentine was a staple of the rigging.3 Even after their uses for the United States naval stores industry, a few remnants naval purposes diminished, the term highlight aspects of of which are scattered around persisted to describe the industry and forests and forest the South. Places like McCranie’s its products.4 products. All across Turpentine Still in Willacoochee, The naval stores industry played New England, maple Georgia, and the restored still on the an important role in the economic syrup festivals fill the late winter University of Florida’s Austin Cary history of the American South.5 As Fweekend calendar. The West Virginia Forest make for great forest history early as 1608, Virginia producers Forest Festival has celebrated the road trips. But only Portal, Georgia, were sending pitch and tar from pine beauty of the Mountain State’s fall holds a celebration of the product trees to England.6 One of the English foliage since 1930. In Washington itself, with the Catface Country colonies’ first industries, naval stores State, the Mason County Forest Turpentine Festival. The turpentine remained a vital one in the South well Festival was established in 1945 to distillery in Portal is one of only three into the twentieth century. In the honor “the area’s logging history by remaining in Georgia and is the only South, longleaf pine and slash pine 7 showcasing the value of timber to one that operates on its original site. were the preferred species. FOREST HISTORY TODAY | SPRING/FALL 2019 | 61 The Carter turpentine still in operation. system by Charles H. Herty in the early 1900s and other technological innovations. The new practices did not require cutting a deep box, nor did LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY they damage the trunk too severely, so trees worked for gum would sustain less loss of timber. Eventually cheaper products and high labor costs led to the collapse of the industry by 1960 and its demise in 2001.10 At the distillery the gum was mixed with a small amount of water and heated in a copper still until the mixture began to boil. Vapor would flow through tubing called a “worm,” where it was cooled by water, then condenses and drips into a collection barrel as spirits of turpentine. The mixture would contain both water and turpentine, so laborers would skim turpentine from the surface. This was called gum turpentining. Rosin would congeal at the bottom of the still, and a tap would allow it to flow into a trough for collection. The master distiller knew when to add more water Turpentining refers to tapping pouring the contents into barrels to or increase the heat from sounds crude gum (or resin) from living pine await transport to a distillery. Using made by the worm or the boiling trees and distilling it into spirits of a tool called a hack, he also chipped a gum.11 The process, which takes turpentine and rosin. Traditionally, new streak on the catface to generate from four to six hours, can be seen turpentining began with “boxing” the more gum. A turpentiner would chip in its entirety at the Catface Country trees. A long-headed axe was used to and dip a “crop” of 10,000 catfaces Turpentine Festival.12 cut an elliptical hole or notch, called in a season (from April to October), a box, roughly eight to twelve inches typically harvesting 150 barrels of gum THE FESTIVAL AT PORTAL wide and four to five inches deep at turpentine.8 The entire process was The turpentine industry in Portal the base of the tree trunk. This formed labor intensive and hard work. began with F. N. Carter Sr. and his son a cavity used to collect the resin. Within a few years, the cuts would E. C. Carter, who began operating the Next, the box was “cornered”: bark kill the tree. Boxing and chipping Carter Turpentine Still in the mid- was removed in a chevron pattern ruined the trees for lumber, even 1930s.13 At that time, the United States on each upper side of the box. These though longleaf pine is excellent for accounted for more than half of rosin slash marks resembled whiskers shipbuilding because of its straight, and turpentine production worldwide, on a cat’s face. As protection from clear wood. After depleting a stand, but by the 1960s, production had insects and disease, the wounded turpentiners would move to a new dramatically decreased, due to tree would secret gum, which flowed one, and the industry slowly migrated international competition, increased into the box. After about ten days the across the South, from Virginia labor and production costs, and a turpentiner returned and collected the to Texas.9 That changed with the labor force that preferred to work resin, dipping a cup into the box and development of the cup-and-gutter in the pulpwood industry over the 62 | FOREST HISTORY TODAY | SPRING/FALL 2019 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: This turpentine still, photographed around 1903 in North Carolina, is similar to the Carter Still in Georgia. Fire is needed both for making turpentine and a snack. Rosin potatoes are boiled over an open flame. The spirits of turpentine flow from the still tubing, which comes through the wall, into a barrel. It wasn’t clear if the quality can be judged by the smell or if it just smells good. turpentine industry.14 The Carter still Country” was incorporated into the than a general store. It houses a small ceased operation in the 1960s and festival’s name. This being a typical museum with farming and turpentine laid dormant for the next 20 years. small-town festival, it starts with a items, including an example of a Unlike other turpentine stills, which parade featuring fire engines and catface. The parade route is walking were dismantled for valuable copper other emergency vehicles, marching distance to the festival grounds. tubing and iron boilers, the Carter bands, local celebrities, and floats. The festival includes all the food, still remained intact. In the 1980s it But only this parade has turpentine- entertainment, arts and crafts, and was restored and is the only one in themed floats, some carrying several children’s attractions you’d expect at Georgia on its original site. Miss Turpentines of various ages. On a local celebration like this. Even the Because of the slash marks on the parade route is Carter’s General food has a turpentine connection. It the “boxed” pine tree, “Catface Store, now more of an antiques store must have been a desperate forest FOREST HISTORY TODAY | SPRING/FALL 2019 | 63 worker who first tried boiling potatoes in rosin, but tradition holds that the rosin distributes the heat exceptionally well, producing a truly delicious treat. The potatoes (both Russets and sweet potatoes) are cooked in bubbling 350-degree rosin for an hour. Because of the rosin, you can’t eat the skin, but the potatoes are tasty.15 The highlight for this forest history buff was the Carter Turpentine Still and the adjacent Bobby Ronald Newton Turpentine Museum. The master turpentiner offers tours for only a few visitors at a time because the space is small and the still is actually operating. The turpentine coming from the still flows into a barrel in the turpentine 5. Joseph J. Malone, Pine Trees and Politics: The The rosin is collected from the still at Naval Stores and Forest Policy in Colonial New the side opposite of the turpentine. museum. Rosin flows in the opposite England, 1691–1775 (Seattle: University of direction late in the day at the end of Washington Press, 1964); Robert B. Outland the process. III, Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South (Baton Rouge: 10. Barnett, Naval Stores, 1–2, 39; Outland, It’s a wonderful way to spend a day Louisiana State University Press, 2004). Tapping the Pines, chapter 3. learning about southern culture, an 6. Thomas Gamble, “Early History of the 11. Nelson Courtlandt Brown, Forest Products: interesting aspect of southern forest Naval Stores Industry in North America,” Their Manufacture and Use (New York: John in Naval Stores: History Distribution Wiley & Sons, 1919), 165–88; A. J. Panshin, history and technology, listening to and Consumption, ed. Thomas Gamble E. S. Harrah, W. J. Baker, and P. B. Proctor, good music, and perhaps eating your (Savannah, GA: Review Publishing & Forest Products: Their Sources, Production, first rosin-boiled potato.
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