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Camp Sevier, Greenville SC - Circa 1916

Known as the wood that built America, heart pine was used for many of America’s first cabins and buildings, and is included in Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and Washington’s Mount Vernon. Four of every five houses in South Carolina were framed with heart pine, and the wood was used to construct the railroads in the South in the 1800s. While there used to be almost 90 million acres of pine, today less than 10,000 acres remain. read more…..

Mobili uses antique heart pine from Camp Sevier, a former US Army Corps base from 1916 to 1922 that camped 120,000 troops and was the leading training facility for the southeast for World War I. The wood taken from the site is the surviving wood from the last remaining two barracks on the 19-square-mile encampment. The wood was then processed to remove all of the nails, dried, stabilized, and milled into useable material for the handcrafted and authentic heart pine farm tables created by Mobili. All material was personally reclaimed by Mobili and all processes transportation, Milling and fabrication within a ten mile radius. Making Mobili Farm Tables one of the most Eco Friendliest on the market.

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