The Gulf Coast Lumberman reported in 1954 that the Grogan family had built twenty miles west of Jefferson about 1900 and sold shortly thereafter to Lodwick Lumber Company. Earlier sources reveal that the mill was located about thirteen miles west of Jefferson. Lodwick Lumber Company operated, at times, under the name of Bradford-Hicks Lumber Company. It also owned the Kingston Lumber Company mill at Kingston, La.
The Lodwick Lumber Company at Lodwick, Marion County, appeared in the January 1905 Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association and in a 1909 roster of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas. The company manufactured yellow pine lumber and operations included a planing mill. Lodwick began using a steam loader and new planer machines in 1912. The Marshall & East Texas Railroad dropped its spur to Lodwick in 1909, according to Zlatkovich, signaling the approaching end of the mill's cutting cycle.
Modern-day Lodwick is located about five miles north of Harleton and just south of Lake of The Pines, in Marion County.
The company did some of its logging on Big Cypress Bayou, according to Harrison County records, and arranged to have its pineries accessed by the company tram road.
The Lodwick Lumber Company moved its offices from the mill site at Lodwick to the Continental Bank Building at Shreveport. The moved was dictated by the need of the sales office to be closer to “the pulse” of the market.
It started new sawmills at Dyersdale (Dyersburg), Harris County, in 1915 and Hicksbaugh, Tyler County, in 1917.