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As of 1999 Texas was the tenth largest timber producing state in the nation. [3] The primary wood product is the Southern yellow pine largely supplying the housing sector in the state. [3] Cities like Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Beaumont, and Marshall still have large lumber firms that make up a substantial portion of their economies.
The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber yard. As the company expanded it moved further south and eventually had holdings in Arkansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory, East Texas and Louisiana, before heading west to Washington.
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.
Beginning in the 1540s, further exploitation of its remaining forests ensued as British factories began consuming vast amounts of wood to fuel its iron industry. In an attempt to preserve its dwindling resource, parliament passed Act for the Preservation of Woods in 1543, limiting further felling of timber to 440 yards from landed property.
Pine Mills is an unincorporated settlement in Wood County, Texas, United States. [1] ... a sawmill community named Liberty Hill had been established as early as 1850 ...
Joseph H. Kurth Sr., was a German immigrant, who had operated a sawmill in Polk County, Texas. He moved to a small settlement north of Lufkin known as Keltys. In 1887, Kurth obtained a sawmill from Charles L. Kelty. He was soon joined by S. W. Henderson Sr., and Sam Wiener, both of Corrigan, Texas.
The Wier Longleaf Lumber Company was a lumber and milling operation established by Robert Withrow Wier (1873–1945) in East Texas that ran from 1918 until 1942. During that period, the company clearcut more than 86,000 acres (350 km²) of virgin pine forest in Newton, Jasper and Sabine counties.
Golden is located at the intersection of FM 1799 and 779 off U.S. Highway 69, 4 mi (6.4 km) northwest of Mineola, 5 mi (8.0 km) southeast of Alba, 33 mi (53 km) northwest of Tyler, and 80 mi (130 km) east of Dallas in the southwestern section of Wood County.
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