This article ran previously on March 13, 2013.
While reading the book âHistory of the Lower Scioto Valley.â I came across the topic âItâs Forests.â Here is an excerpt from that section. The book was published in 1884 and covers Jackson, Pike and Scioto counties.
No one passing for the first time (1883) through the various sections of the Scioto Valley, noting its carefully cultivated fields; its railways, villages, towns and cities; its coal, salt and iron establishments, can form any fair picture of the valley and its tributaries one century since.
All its bottom lands were then shaded by a very dense, high and heavy growth of green, healthy trees, composed of immense sycamore, poplar, white and black walnut, black and white ash, buckeye, beech, soft and rock maple, white, black, red and yellow oak, standing so dense when clothed with foliage as not to allow the sunâs rays to penetrate to the earth, turning bright noon-day into twilight.