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Grogan's Mill (officially the Village of Grogan's Mill) is a village of The Woodlands, a planned community in Texas. Established in 1972, it is the first of ten villages developed in The Woodlands. Its namesake is the Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company, the last sawmill to operate in the area.
Present-day FM 78 is part of what was the much longer original SH 3 designated in 1917. Most of this route was usurped by US 90 during the mass redescription of the state's highway system in 1939, while FM 78 was designated on August 3, 1943 over the portion of SH 3 which ran from FM 25 (now part of SH 46) in western Seguin to SH 218 at what was then known as Randolph Field.
Normandy is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Maverick County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census . [ 2 ]
Long Properties was Long’s personal holding company, Texas Naval Stores Company ran a turpentine distillery, and Hudson River Lumber Company had operations in DeRidder, Louisiana. The King-Ryder Lumber Company in Bon Ami, Louisiana , was the first Long-Bell venture in Louisiana; it also owned mills at Thomasville in Indian Territory ...
A 1955 map shows that US 59 shared the same route that is used by US 90 Alt. in 2012, which is about 3.0 miles (4.8 km) north of the path of US 59 in 2012. [3] On December 12, 1994 FM 1464 was realigned to connect with SH 99 at distance 0.12 miles (0.19 km) north of US 90 Alt. This was done by a spur connection of length 0.07 miles (0.11 km).
In 1902, lumber baron and businessman John Henry Kirby purchased the mill, and dubbed it "Mill L", an asset of the Kirby Lumber Company. As of 1907, the annual production of lumber was almost 17 million board feet. [3] The mill closed in the early 1930s, which caused Village Mills' population to drop from 300 down to 80 within the next decade.
Ranch to Market Road 1431 (RM 1431) is a 66.702-mile (107.346 km) ranch to market road in Texas, United States, that connects Austin with rural areas of Central Texas. [ 1 ] Route description
Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company, which started at Willard in 1912, bought Thompson Brothers' Trinity mill in 1922. Under management of Paul Sanderson for 22 years, the company was one of the nation's most successful manufacturers of Yellow Pine and Southern Hardwoods. During World War II, production reached 140,000 board feet daily, resulting in ...