The Lufkin Land and Lumber Company was organized in May 1899 as a joint venture of Enoch W. Frost, Edwin Ambrose Frost, George A. Kelley, and T. L.L. Temple. From at least August to December of 1899, orders were placed with Angelina County Lumber company for thousands of feet of lumber to construct the mill and company town. The plant was inside Lufkin city limits, but the mill town assumed its own identity as “Lufkin Land.” It chartered the Texas & Louisiana company railway in 1900, “tramming 32 miles,” with ten miles of extension to the east of the Attoyac River, into the suburbs of Broaddus in San Augustine County.
By 1905, 200 to 300 men, working double shifts, were producing 60 million feet per year. The monthly payroll by early 1916 was $2,000. The company paid in tokens, which could be redeemed at the commissary. H. Matthews told Vernon Beasley that the sawmill town consisted of about one hundred tenant houses.
Long-Bell Lumber Company bought out Lufkin Land and Lumber Company in 1905 and operated the plant until The Gulf Coast Lumberman reported on November 1, 1930, that the Long-Bell plant at Lufkin would close for good by the end of the year.