Rollo Bros. Lumber Company
This small operation is listed in the 1900 Manuscript Census and was closed probably by 1905 or 1906. The 1899 county tax roll listed the steam engine and boiler under W. M. Rollo as worth $200. It had a planing mill, a tram road, and a school. Robert Hart was the planing mill foreman; George Howes, the engineer; Charles Howes, schoolteacher; John W. Reese, locomotive engineer; John Beason, Wilson Brown, Wilsey Williams, the sawyers; Pete Lock, carriage runner; Billy Adkins, block setter; and Jay Mosely, fireman.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
LI
Owner Name
William and John T. Rollo
Location
Near Keno, about four miles south of Cleveland on the Houston East & West Texas
County
Liberty
Years in Operation:
7
Start Year:
1899
End Year:
1905
Decades:
1890-1899,1900-1909
Period of Operation:
1899 to about 1905
Town:
Near Keno
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2