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The Battle for Lilley's Woods

The Battle for Lilley's Woods The Battle for Lilley's Woods Sidney Farr Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 1993, pp. 4-6 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0036 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436489/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:59 GMT from JHU Libraries THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN The Battle for Lilley's Woods Sidney Farr The great poplars and white oaks grew near the base of the hills and in the coves, while the lesser oaks and chestnuts predominated on the sharper points and near the hilltops. Coundess walnuts dotted the for- est, thousands of them without blemish and a yard or more in diameter. The Goliaths were the superb, pencil-straight poplars, some of them towering one hundred and seventy-five feet and achieving a diameter of seven or eight feet. Next ... were the white oaks ... the sturdy red, black and chestnut oaks and ... tremendous hickories, ash, persimmon or black-gum and, lining the creek banks, the .. . graceful sycamores, birches and willows. .. . No region in earth's temperate zone boasts a larger variety of forest trees than the Cumberland Plateau, and in [earlier] years they abounded in- natural profusion, little damaged by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Battle for Lilley's Woods

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Appalachian Review , Volume 21 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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The Battle for Lilley's Woods Sidney Farr Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 1993, pp. 4-6 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0036 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436489/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:59 GMT from JHU Libraries THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN The Battle for Lilley's Woods Sidney Farr The great poplars and white oaks grew near the base of the hills and in the coves, while the lesser oaks and chestnuts predominated on the sharper points and near the hilltops. Coundess walnuts dotted the for- est, thousands of them without blemish and a yard or more in diameter. The Goliaths were the superb, pencil-straight poplars, some of them towering one hundred and seventy-five feet and achieving a diameter of seven or eight feet. Next ... were the white oaks ... the sturdy red, black and chestnut oaks and ... tremendous hickories, ash, persimmon or black-gum and, lining the creek banks, the .. . graceful sycamores, birches and willows. .. . No region in earth's temperate zone boasts a larger variety of forest trees than the Cumberland Plateau, and in [earlier] years they abounded in- natural profusion, little damaged by

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