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Georgia-Pacific lumber mill in Eureka, California (May 1972).. Georgia-Pacific was founded by Owen Robertson Cheatham on September 22, 1927 in Augusta, Georgia, as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. [5] He started the company through the acquisition of a wholesale hardwood lumber yard.
The mill boasted a double circular saw, edger, and planer, with the mill having a capacity of 20,000 board feet (1,700 cu ft or 50 m 3) of lumber per day. An unusual aspect of the site was a 270-foot (80 m) wire suspension bridge , built in 1877 to connect the mainland to a small island in the ocean.
Hammond Lumber Company railroads brought logs and lumber to Samoa from Little River and Big Lagoon until the railway trestles were destroyed by wildfire in 1945. Georgia-Pacific Corporation purchased the Samoa sawmill complex in 1956 and began operation of a plywood mill in 1958. [17]
In 1969, the Union Lumber Company was purchased by Boise Cascade and John Quincy and it became Georgia Pacific Lumber Company in 1973. The mill was shut down in 2002 after being identified as a nonperforming asset. The 400-acre (1.6 km 2) piece of property within the city limits takes up almost the entire coastline of Fort Bragg, including Fort ...
Fort Bragg, California, is a decommissioned United States Army post with residential development and California Western Railroad service overseen by the Union Lumber Company, later Georgia-Pacific [3] Graeagle, California, owned by Fruit Growers Supply Company, an affiliate of Sunkist; Hercules, California, built by the Hercules Powder Company
Trees are unloaded by a crane at Buckeye’s Foley plant in Taylor County in 2012. The Foley Cellulose mill in Perry, Florida, announced on Sept. 18, 2023, that Georgia-Pacific plans to ...
Broadway Mill expansion adds to Georgia-Pacific's Green Bay-area workforce; jobs still available. The new equipment and production lines incorporate a lot of automation and technology to increase ...
Cheatham Grove, a stand of old growth Redwood trees in California's Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, is named for him. The land, part of Georgia Pacific's larger timber holdings in the area, was donated to the state by Owen Cheatham in 1945.