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[QUOTE="CONN78SEJ, post: 4009887, member: 10604"]
The chestnut’s lumber was prized for being so durable and rot resistant. Any barn or farmhouse in built before 1904 is almost always American Chestnut. This especially true in Appalachia where the American Chestnut was especially dominant in those areas. From Maine to Florida, one out of every three hardwood trees was a chestnut, but in Appalachia there were hundred of miles of forests that were all tall straight towering chestnut trees. Reclaimed chestnut beams from these old buildings is a big business even today.
What’s also unfortunate is when the chestnut trees started dieing around 1904, the lumber industry panicked and cut down every valuable tree they could find, millions upon millions were cut down over a twenty year span because the lumber industry figured all of them would eventually die. What they did not realize was that they were also cutting down possibly thousands of trees resistant to the blight.

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