Laurel Turpentine Company / Blackburn Sawmill Quarters

Laurel Turpentine Company / Blackburn Sawmill Quarters (HM2CCK)

Location: Nokomis, FL 34275 Sarasota County
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Country: United States of America
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N 27° 8.357', W 82° 26.966'

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Laurel Turpentine Company
As the turpentine industry spread through southwest Florida, landowners leased turpentine rights to contractors who hired operators for camps that would harvest gum from thousands of acres of pine woods. The Laurel Turpentine Company was located on the east side of the Seaboard Air Line Railway to the north and south of present-day Laurel Road. Workers' quarters included a commissary, a cemetery and a building that served the Mt. Zion Baptist Church on weekends and elementary school students and community groups during the week.
Blackburn Sawmill Quarters
North of the turpentine complex, the J. Ray Arnold Lumber Company set up a sawmill in the mid-1920s for the Palmer family's Sarasota-Venice Company. The company had a web of rails that reached into the pine woods to haul rough-sawn timber for finer cutting. The sawmill quarters contained houses and a commissary for workers and their families.
To the west across the tracks were the Blackburn quarters. Built by Spencer Blackburn, the houses were available for rent by workers in the local turpentine, lumber and agricultural industries.
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HM NumberHM2CCK
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Date Added Monday, October 15th, 2018 at 8:03pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17R E 356362 N 3002691
Decimal Degrees27.13928333, -82.44943333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 27° 8.357', W 82° 26.966'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds27° 8' 21.42" N, 82° 26' 57.96" W
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Area Code(s)941
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1 Laurel Rd E, Nokomis FL 34275, US
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