Stacey Trevenon chronicles the history of King’s Mountain

Review writer Stacy Trevenon has just written a history of Kings Mountain, reports Julia Scott in the County Times.

The tall, majestic groves of redwoods are the heart of this wooded enclave, but there was a time when Kings Mountain was far more famous for the lumbermen who eviscerated an entire region of 1,000-year-old redwoods with cool efficiency in the course of just 70 years.

"There were loggers up here who denuded the mountain," said Trevenon. "They would timber out the area and pick up the mill and just move it."

The scrappy, knockabout lives of lumbermen get plenty of attention in the first chapters of Trevenon’s new history book, "Kings Mountain," published in August and available at several Coastside bookstores.

The milling rush forever transformed the landscape — 60 square miles of mountain ridgetop and gulch area between Skyline Boulevard and incorporated Woodside — and Tevenon has unearthed a treasure trove of dramatic black-and-white photographs of ox teams and mill workers dwarfed by the stature of the redwood trees they felled, some up to 75 feet.

"Kings Mountain" from Arcadia Publishing is available at several stores in Half Moon Bay, including Cunha Country Store, the Bay Book Co. and Moon News Bookstore. It is also available online at Amazon.com and ArcadiaPublishing.com