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These railroads provided an inexpensive means for moving passengers as well as logs and lumber, and opened Mississippi's Pine Belt to both industrial growth and community development. Notable railway construction during this era included the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad ; New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad ; and the Mobile, Jackson and ...
Fernwood Lumber Company had its beginning in the 1870s when John Fletcher Enochs and his son, Isaac Columbus Enochs, started a lumber business near Crystal Springs in Copiah County, Mississippi. [1] Between 1880 and 1920, Fernwood Lumber Company became one of the largest lumber operations in south Mississippi with investments in timberland ...
A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online; Fries, R. J. Empire in Pine. The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830-1900 (1951); Irland, Lloyd C. "Maine Lumber Production, 1839-1997: A Statistical Overview." Maine History 38.1 (1998): 36–49. online
The Shuqualak Lumber Company was founded in 1948 and employs approximately 150. It is one of the largest privately owned, independent producers of southern yellow pine in the southeastern United States.
The Great Southern Lumber Company sawmill was designed to process 1,000,000 board feet (2,400 m 3) of lumber per day and was the largest sawmill in the world, [4] spread over 160 acres (65 ha). [7] Once pines were felled, logs were dragged to railroad spurs by rail-mounted steam skidders with 1000-ft (300-m) draglines, loaded onto flatcars ...
Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad: Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad: IC: 1872 1890 Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway: Natchez and Southern Railway: MP: 1902 1965 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Natchez Trace Railroad: NTR 1982 1993 Mississippi Central Railroad: New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Memphis Railroad: IC: 1882 1884
Columbus was founded in 1819, and, as it was believed to be in Alabama, it was first officially recognized by an Alabama Legislative act as the Town of Columbus on December 6, 1819. [9] Before its incorporation, the town site was referred to informally as Possum Town , a name which was given by the local Native Americans, who were primarily ...
Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 58,879. [1] Its county seat is Columbus. [2]