Whiteman-Decker Lumber Company
The Whiteman-Decker Lumber Company built a new mill at Alto in 1933 and appeared in the 1934 edition of the Lumbermen's Credit Rating Book. The Gulf Coast Lumberman obituary on W. T. Whiteman, in April, 1951, reported that W. T. Whiteman, after ending his experience in the Blount-Decker mill at Alto in 1922, later operated a “modest circular sawmill” at Alto from 1933 until he retired in 1945. This sawmill was located near the former mill site of Blount-Decker Lumber Company at Alto.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
CK
Owner Name
Whiteman-Decker Lumber Company
Location
Alto: on Mill Pond Road, south of pond
County
Cherokee
Years in Operation:
23
Start Year:
1933
End Year:
1955
Decades:
1930-1939,1940-1949,1950-1959
Period of Operation:
From 1933 to about 1955
Town:
Alto
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
1