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Finkbine Lumber Company sawmill, Wiggins, Mississippi, circa 1920 Virgin longleaf pines near Wiggins, MS, c. 1900. Up until the 20th century, the virgin pine forests of south Mississippi were virtually untouched by man, because there was no efficient system for transporting cut logs from the forests to sawmills for conversion to lumber.
Fernwood Lumber Company had its beginning in the 1870s when John Fletcher Enochs and his son, Isaac Columbus Enochs, started a lumber business near Crystal Springs in Copiah County, Mississippi. [1] Between 1880 and 1920, Fernwood Lumber Company became one of the largest lumber operations in south Mississippi with investments in timberland ...
L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company sawmill at Moss Point, Mississippi (1909), courtesy of Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries The sawmill's Moss Point location was well situated for receiving logs that were rafted down the Pascagoula and Escatawpa Rivers and their tributaries.
Outlets of Mississippi is an outdoor outlet mall located just north of the intersection of U.S. Route 49 and Interstate 20 in Pearl, Mississippi, United States, approximately 3.5 miles east of Downtown Jackson. [1] More than 30,000 people attended the grand opening of the mall in late November 2013. The mall is anchored by Forever 21. The mall ...
Location of Claiborne County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Claiborne County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
Location of Jackson County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
In 1924, the company received a contract to provide lumber for the first bridge between Titusville and Merritt Island. The Foshee Manufacturing Company took over operations and rebuilt the railroad in 1928, but the Great Depression hit and put the operation out of business. The buildings and railroad were torn down and sold in 1932.
The Calcasieu Lumber Company began operating in 1884 [7] and became the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company in 1886. On March 16, 1906, Long-Bell Lumber Company purchased the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company, that included two sawmills, 105,000 acres of timberlands, the Lake Charles and Leesville Railroad, and the Lake Charles Chemical Company.