Cypress Shingle Camps

[Gypsy Heart]

I am reading a book on the life of May Mellinger , the daughter of a shingle maker , called Splint Road c.1952. In the book it describes how shingle makers went from camp to camp in the swamps ,cutting and bundling cypress shingles. It made me start looking for where these 'camps' were....Locations and sites below... Might be good areas to detect.

http://www.bethany-beach.net/parks.htm
.............On the firm land formed by high spots in the swamp, camps were established to cut the cypress log shingles. Workers located the buried cypress trunks by poking a long iron rod along the swamp floor

http://www.hill-country-visitor.com/default.asp/city/1
Bandera, Texas was founded 1852 as a cypress shingle camp, and the site of a Mormon colony established 1854

http://www.hill-country-visitor.com/html/HistoryOfKerrville.asp/city/18

Brown learned to make shingles from the huge cypress trees that grow along the Guadalupe River in what is now Kerr County.

http://www.hcwilliams.com/Historical_II/body_historical_ii.htm

http://www.gothere.com/Florida/Ruskin/

http://www.hchsonline.org/places/turpentine.html

http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/rhines/StudentProjects/2005/Leakey/page[1].html

 

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