Until the 1920s, few woodworkers had ever seen a sweet gum board. Although sweet gum trees grew from Texas to Connecticut, not much of the wood became lumber because of uncontrollable warping during ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. While many came to America searching for streets paved in gold, those who ended up in St. Louis in the 1890s found many of them ...

Q. Some of our sweet gum trees, which are about 25 to 30 feet tall, have a weird, barklike substance growing from the trunk out to the end of the branches. The growth forms ridges, almost like waves.

Sweet gum is a common tree in the forests of central New Jersey and points south, and from the Atlantic to Texas. It also grows in the mountains of Mexico and Central America, a survivor from a time ...