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Whitman's Bluff Logging Camp
The Bancroft Lumber Company operated a company commissary and logging camp on a 13,800 pinery at Whitman's Bluff on the Sabine River in 1900. The camp became part of the Kirby Lumber Company when it bought out Bancroft Lumber. E. W. Bancroft worked fifty men at Whitman's for Kirby Lumber Company in 1902.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
OR
Owner Name
Kirby Lumber Company. Bancroft Lumber Company.
Location
100 miles north of Orange on the Sabine River.
County
Orange
Years in Operation:
31
Start Year:
1900
End Year:
1930
Decades:
1900-1909,1910-1919,1920-1929,1930-1939
Period of Operation:
1900 to about 1930
Town:
Whitman's Bluff
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
0
Mill Type
Product
Power Source
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