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Fully operational water-powered grist mill. Founded in 1767, moved 500 feet downstream to current location in 1819. According to legend, Revolutionary War British troops seized the original mill prior to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781. [3] West Point Mill, Durham; Yates Mill, Wake County; Ohio. Lantermans Mill Youngstown, Ohio ...
The company was founded by Kenneth W. Ford in 1936 as Roseburg Lumber in Roseburg, Oregon. [1] In 1979, it acquired 323,000 acres of California forest land from Kimberly-Clark. [3] In the early 1980s it was renamed to Roseburg Forest Products. In 1987, Roseburg acquired California timberland from Diamond International. [4]
Underwood Lumber, Lakeview, Oregon In 1963, AFPC had 4 sawmills and 170,000 acres (688 km 2 ) of timberland in Northern California, and employed over 4000 workers in 49 location in 16 states. AFPC was acquired by the Bendix Corporation in 1969 as Bendix sought to diversify outside its core automobile and defense business.
purchased new as a wood-burner; later converted to oil fuel; in 1986 placed on display in Eureka, California [28] 30 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-2 1911 36173 purchased new; scrapped 1955 [27] 31 Lima Locomotive Works 3-truck Shay locomotive 6 April 1911 2419 formerly California Western Railroad #10 purchased 1917; sold 1920 [29] 32 H.K. Porter ...
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. [1] A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R. H. Emmerson and his son, A. A. "Red" Emmerson, the long-term CEO, and A. A. Emmerson's sons George and Mark are now president and CEO.
The rated capacity of the new sawmill was 50,000,000 board feet per year. [13] [14]: 3 By comparison, the Wisconsin-Michigan Lumber Co. milled about 15,000,000 board feet per year. Charles Kinzel continued his logging operations in Wisconsin for a time, ending his own rail operations in 1926 and closing his sawmill in 1930. [15]
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Interfor Corporation is one of the largest lumber producers in the world. [3] The company's sawmilling operations have a combined manufacturing capacity of over 5.2 billion board feet of lumber with sales to North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.