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C. L. Morgan (HO-19)
| sawmill id: | 10757 |
| alpha-numeric key: | HO-19 |
| corporate name: | C. L. Morgan |
| local name: | |
| owner affiliation: | C. L. Morgan |
| location: | On Brookfield Bluff on the Trinity River, five miles west of Porter Springs |
| county: | Houston |
| years in operation: | 5 |
| start year: | 1922 |
| (qual) | * |
| end year: | 1926 |
| (qual) | * |
| decades: | 1920-1929 |
| period of operation: | 1922 to 1926 |
| town: | West of Crockett |
| company town: | Yes |
| peak town size: | 20 to 25 people |
| mill pond: | ? |
| type of mill: | Hardwood floorboards for the major automobile manufacturers at Detroit |
| sawmill: | Yes |
| pine sawmill: | |
| hardwood sawmill: | Yes |
| cypress sawmill: | |
| planer: | |
| planer only: | |
| shingle: | |
| paper: | |
| plywood: | |
| cotton: | |
| grist: | |
| unknown: | |
| other: | |
| power source: | Steam |
| horse: | |
| mule: | |
| oxen: | |
| water: | |
| water overshot: | |
| water turbine: | |
| pit: | |
| steam: | Yes |
| steam circular: | |
| steam band: | |
| gas: | |
| diesel: | |
| electric: | |
| other: | |
| unknown: | |
| maximum capacity: | |
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| capacity comments: | Unknown |
| rough lumber: | Yes |
| planed lumber: | |
| crossties: | |
| timbers: | |
| lathe: | |
| ceiling: | |
| unknown: | |
| beading: | |
| flooring: | |
| paper: | |
| plywood: | |
| particle board: | |
| treated: | |
| other: | |
| equipment: | Sawmill |
| company tram: | No |
| associated railroads: | International & Great Northern |
| historical development: | According to Lucille Terry, daughter of C. L. Morgan, her father established a sawmill on the Trinity River near Crockett in the early 1920s. Logging was done upstream on the Trinity. Logs dumped into the river floated downstream to a log boom made of cable which stretched across the river. Ms Terry remembered the loggers being ?very skillful? as they moved about on the logs. The logs were placed onto a cable-drawn, log car that then moved up a railroad track to the sawmill. W. G. Breazeale, as a boy, observed the mill and its surroundings for its entire life. There were several small, tenant houses for the mixed work force, which took its meals in a dining hall. The cook was Afro-American; her husband was the mill?s filer. No children lived at the mill site, although some local men who had families worked at the mill. Schools and churches, located about a mile to the east at Porter Springs, serviced the needs of workers, spouses, and children. The mill town consisted of Morgan?s home on Brookfield Bluff and about a dozen tenant houses on the flat. Ms Terry spent the summer at Brookfield with her mother and siblings. She went to school in Longview, the family?s hometown, and Mr. Morgan would arrive home for the weekends. Morgan, a sawmiller from Longview, also had mills at Jefferson and Oakwood. |
| research date: | MCJ 02-20-96 |
| research by: | M. Johnson |
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| bibliography: | Southern Lumberman. Southern Lumberman?s Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills, 5th ed. Nashville: Southern Lumberman, 1928. 1020-1021. W. G. Breazeale Pamphlet. Porter Springs: Privately Printed, 1994. Copy at Texas Forestry Museum. Lufkin, Texas. Lucille Terry. ?Saw Milling on the Trinity River 1920s.? Typescript. Texas Forestry Museum. Lufkin, Texas. |
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