The Wood That Built America: Harder Than Concrete, Lasts 100 Years. Why Did We Stop Using It?

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There is a wood that outlasts concrete. Fence posts buried in 1850 still stand today. Modern pressure-treated lumber rots in 15 years. This wood remains perfect for a century without chemicals. And it fertilizes the soil as it grows.

Then we erased it. Not because it failed, because it succeeded too well. A material lasting forever cannot be sold every decade. A tree healing dead soil threatens the fertilizer industry. Wood needing no poison cannot generate chemical profits.

This is the hidden history of Black Locust, the rot-proof timber that built an empire and was buried to protect a market.

The pattern is familiar. Indigenous materials enabling sovereignty are systematically erased, not because they're inferior, but because they cannot be controlled.

📚 Sources:

Strachey, W. (1610). The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania. First English documentation of black locust in North America.
Howard, A.L. (1946). Trees in Britain: The Evidence of Cobbett's Activity. Historical documentation of black locust distribution in England.
Black Locust Lumber Company. (2020-2025). Technical specifications, historical applications, and modern architectural projects.
Cierjacks, A., et al. (2013). Impact of suckering black locust on soil nitrogen dynamics. Journal of Soil Science.
Meng, S., et al. (2020). Black locust as pioneer tree species for afforestation on Mount Tai to preserve soil. Environmental Restoration Studies.
Li, Y., et al. (2021). Plantation conversion effects on soil quality in black locust coppice stands. Forest Ecology Studies.
National Park Service. Black Locust Allée at Martin Van Buren National Historic Site. Historical landscape preservation documentation.
Peattie, D.C. (1991). A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. (2015). Black Locust: The Tree on Which the US Was Built. Garden History Archives.

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