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H. F. Craddock (HO-46)
| sawmill id: | 10784 |
| alpha-numeric key: | HO-46 |
| corporate name: | H. F. Craddock |
| local name: | |
| owner affiliation: | H. F. Craddock |
| location: | Kennard |
| county: | Houston |
| years in operation: | 1 |
| start year: | 1906 |
| (qual) | * |
| end year: | 1906 |
| (qual) | * |
| decades: | 1900-1909 |
| period of operation: | 1906 |
| town: | Kennard |
| company town: | ? |
| peak town size: | Unknown |
| mill pond: | ? |
| type of mill: | Lumber |
| sawmill: | Yes |
| pine sawmill: | |
| hardwood sawmill: | |
| 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: | |
| steam circular: | |
| steam band: | |
| gas: | |
| diesel: | |
| electric: | |
| other: | |
| unknown: | Yes |
| maximum capacity: | 15000: 1906 |
| (qual) | |
| capacity comments: | 15,000 feet daily |
| 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: | Eastern Texas Railway |
| historical development: | According to the Southern Industrial and Lumber Review, Craddock?s sawmill at Kennard in 1906 was cutting 15,000 feet of lumber daily. H. F. Craddock may have been a son or grandson of H. Frank Craddock, whose sawmill is enumerated in the Census of 1860 for Houston County. W. T. Block believes the Moore mill and the Craddock mill at Kennard, since Louisiana & Texas Lumber Company owned the pine stumpage in the vicinity of Kennard and Ratcliff, were hardwood mills. |
| research date: | MCJ 02-20-96 |
| research by: | M. Johnson |
| historical interpretation: | |
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| bibliography: | ?Lumber Mills of Texas.? Southern Industrial and Lumber Review. September 6, 1906. 27-29. W. T. Block. ?Some Early Sawmills, Log Tram Roads, and Logging Camps of Houston County, Texas.? Nederland, Texas: unpublished manuscripts, 1994. |
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