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[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

New Orleans is filled with houses built of lumber from discarded flatboats. Goods would be shipped down the Mississippi river then the boats would be abandoned or dismantled since they couldn't be floated back up river. That left a nice surplus of lumber in a city that didn't have that much natively.

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