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It constructed the Longview, Portland and Northern Railway to serve its company town of Longview, Washington. [2] For its efforts in Thomasville, the company constructed the 12-mile-long Kingston and Choctaw Valley Railroad in the 1898-1899 timeframe, which ran from south of Thomasville through the town to Howe, Oklahoma .
Ryderwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cowlitz County, Washington, west of the city of Vader.Known locally as the "Village in the Woods", the town began in 1923 as a logging settlement and considered itself the "World's Largest Logging Town".
Interfor Corporation is one of the largest lumber producers in the world. [3] The company's sawmilling operations have a combined manufacturing capacity of over 5.2 billion board feet of lumber with sales to North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
It retired in 1890 and was displayed by W. H. Williamson at Stella in 1903. It was then acquired by Long-Bell Lbr. Co. Longview, WA (1923) and donated to the Longview, Portland and Northern Railway (1924) before it came to the City of Longview, Washington, where it was displayed and shown on parades. From there it was stolen and finally ...
Wilson, Donald A. Logging and lumbering in Maine (Arcadia Publishing, 2001) online. Wood, Richard G. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1820-1861 (U of Maine Press, 1971) Wynn, Graeme. "On the History of Lumbering in Northeastern America, 1820-1960." Acadiensis 3.2 (1974): 122–129. online
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [5]
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In Longview, Washington, a bronze bust of Long, by Alonzo Victor Lewis, was placed in the renamed R. A. Long Park on August 24, 1946. In 1956, International Paper Company (IP) purchased all remaining holdings of the Long-Bell Lumber Company and renamed it IP-Long-Bell. With the lumber depleted and the mill being antiquated, IP-Bell ceased ...