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Finkbine Lumber Company sawmill, Wiggins, Mississippi, circa 1920 Virgin longleaf pines near Wiggins, MS, c. 1900. Up until the 20th century, the virgin pine forests of south Mississippi were virtually untouched by man, because there was no efficient system for transporting cut logs from the forests to sawmills for conversion to lumber.
The company closed its Moss Point sawmill in 1942, and moved the company office to Ten Mile, [9] near Perkinston, Mississippi. There they opened a new sawmill. [ 2 ] During World War II, Dantzler Lumber Company entered into a contract with the War Department to use labor from the prisoner-of-war camp in Saucier, Mississippi for stacking ...
From 1902 to 1906, the Gulf Coast Lumber Company operated the rail lines built in the area. The lines were built to transport the valuable long leaf pine trees being logged in the Lizana area to a sawmill Gulf Coast Lumber operated in nearby Lyman. In 1906 the Gulf Coast Lumber Company was purchased by Ingram-Day Lumber Company which would ...
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: Fernwood and Gulf Railroad: 1906 1920 Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf Railroad: Gainesville and Mississippi Railroad: GM&O: 1852 1854 Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad: Georgia Pacific Railway: C&G, SOU: 1881 1894 Southern Railway in Mississippi: Grand Gulf and Port Gibson Railroad: IC: 1852 1883
When the town was founded by a logging company in 1924, Black people were not permitted to live or work in the state. Nevertheless, the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Co. brought in 50 to 60 Black workers ...
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 ...
The G&SIRR Company controlled a 6-mile (9.7-km) long channel in the Gulf of Mexico that connected the mainland to Ship Island. Dredging of a shipping channel was completed by the S.S. Bullis Company in 1902; it connected Ship Island and the main railroad terminal at Gulfport. [3] The G&SIRR greatly facilitated the development of the shipping port.
L.O. Crosby Sr. (February 22, 1869 – November 24, 1948) was an American businessman and timber industrialist in Mississippi.During his 50 years as an active industrialist, Crosby owned thousands of acres of southern pine timberlands and numerous sawmills for converting trees into lumber.