Because of the sequoia's size and durability, the Giant Forest was a region of particular value to loggers.The Kaweah Colony, a socialist colony which lived in the forest until 1892, hoped to profit from lumber production and constructed the first road in the park.
The colony attempted unsuccessfully to change the name of the General Sherman tree to the Karl Marx tree.
In the 1880s, white settlers seeking to create a utopian society founded the Kaweah Colony, which sought economic success in trading Sequoia timber.
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