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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.
Along with Bon Wier, it was founded as a company town to service the needs of Wier Longleaf Lumber Company, the last of the major lumber milling operations in East Texas which was founded by Robert Withrow Wier (1873–1945) and family in 1917. At its height in the 1920s and 1930s, it had a population of over 2,500, but with the sale of the ...
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.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Korbel, Humboldt County, California, built by Humboldt Lumber Mill Company [4] McCloud, California, built by McCloud River Railroad Lumber Company. Metropolitan, California, built by Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company [5] Nipton, California, owned by Spiegelworld; Nortonville, California, owned by the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company
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 ...
It’s January, and toward the top of your list of resolutions might be something along the lines of: Sleep more and workout more. Hey, both are pretty dang important. But let’s say you got a ...
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 ...