Brooks and Perkins operated a sawmill on Dorr's Island in 1884, on the west side of the Trinity one and a half miles above Wallisville. In February 1884, Brooks had dropped from the ownership and was replaced by August Lemuel and H. F. Levy of Harris County, who with Perkins, sold the mill that month for $1600 to the Chambers County clerk, John R. Wooten. Wooten sold the mill to William Gallon and C. E. Parker. Henry S. Mackin replaced Gallon; Parker and Mackin continued operations under the new name of the “Wallisville Mills.” How long the sawmill operated and the nature of its cessation are unknown at this time. By 1885 the Wooten mill was located on the east side of the river just below Lake Miller.