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Weyerhaeuser buys the forest
1900
Tacoma, Washington
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Frederick Weyerhaeuser bought 900,000 acres of timberland from James Hill's railroad at six dollars an acre, the largest private land transaction in American history to that point, and the start of industrial forestry in the Northwest.
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