Brothers Albert and Walter Boynton opened a 50,000-foot mill in Newton County about 1908. They chose a site for their mill, just east of Bleakwood, and named the town Logtown. Working about 100 men in the mills and in logging operations, the Boynton Brothers moved cut timber to the mill on a logging tram from the 3,000 acre pinery they owned. The company ran a commissary store and boarding house. Jeff Mitchell operated the boarding house; Charles Gee was the millwright; Walter Boynton was an owner and sawmill foreman, while Albert Boynton was an owner and the planer foreman.
Logtown had about 700 residents at the time, but these numbers rapidly diminished when the brothers moved their mill to Sturgis (White City), San Augustine County. They would also operate a Boynton Lumber Company sawmill in Angelina County from about 1920 to 1931.