Chestnut Wood Flooring

In some places, such as the Appalachian Mountains, one in every four hardwoods was an American chestnut; mature trees often grew straight and branch-free for 50 feet, averaging up to five feet in diameter; from 1600 through 1900, most barns and homes east of the Mississippi were made from it; the discovery of the chestnut blight fungus on some Asian chestnut trees planted on Long Island, New York was made public in 1904; within 40 years, the near-four billion-strong American chestnut population in North America was devastated; only a few clumps of trees remained; due to this disease, American chestnut wood almost disappeared from the market for decades rendering the wood commercially extinct; it is now generally only available reclaimed

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