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L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company sawmill at Moss Point, Mississippi (1909), courtesy of Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries. The sawmill's Moss Point location was well situated for receiving logs that were rafted down the Pascagoula and Escatawpa Rivers and their tributaries.
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 Swan River Logging Company was established in 1892 along the confluence of the Swan and Mississippi Rivers near Jacobson, Minnesota. A landing had been in use for many years, taking travelers to farmsteads and towns all along the way. The steamboats used cord wood to fuel the vessels.
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 lumber industry of northern New York: a geographical examination of its history and technology.” ( Syracuse University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1963. 6405650). Fox, William Freeman. A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online
Musser Lumber Company was a US lumber company, and one of Iowa's pioneer lumber concerns. In its day, it was one of the most complete and modern lumber mills on the Mississippi River , employing about 400 men during the working season, and between 200 and 300 men in the logging end of the business.
Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University; Center for Forestry and Ecology, Alabama A&M University; College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University; College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University
Mississippi and Alabama Railroad: IC: 1836 1841 Jackson and Brandon Railroad and Bridge Company: Mississippi Central Railroad: MSC IC: 1904 1967 Illinois Central Railroad: Mississippi Central Railroad: IC: 1852 1874 New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad: Mississippi Eastern Railway: ME 1903 1942 N/A Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa ...