McCranie's Turpentine Still is a historic site in

Willacoochee Willacoochee is a city in Atkinson County, Georgia, United States, along the Alapaha River. The population was 1,391 at the 2010 census. History The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Willacoochee as a town in 1889. ''Willacoochee'' is a name ...

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.''McCranie's Turpentine Still'', by Kenneth H. Thomas Jr., The

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Institute of Community & Area Development and

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, 1975. It was added to the

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on June 28, 1976. It is located west of Willacoochee on U.S. 82.

History

The McCranie family worked in the

turpentine Turpentine (which is also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthene, terebinthine and (colloquially) turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines. Mainly used as a special ...

industry prior to 1900 and continued for generations. This turpentine

still A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus, but on a much larger scale. Stills have been u ...

was built in 1936, based on designs and methods from earlier eras. It was operated by three McCranie brothers. It ceased operation in 1942 when the two elder McCranie brothers went to war. The replacement of the

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process by

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and the labor shortage caused by World War II contributed to its closure. The still remains largely intact.

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File:McCranie Turpentine Still, Willacoochee, GA, USA, 2015.jpg, The still in 2015 File:Log cabin with McCranie's Turpentine Still, Atkinson County, GA, US.jpg, Log cabin with the still File:McCranie Turpentine Still historical marker, Willacoochee, GA, USA.JPG, Historical marker

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* {{Registered Historic Places Buildings and structures in Atkinson County, Georgia Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Atkinson County, Georgia

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