This sawmill town went by the name of Durant. The same sawmill was represented at different times by Louie Odum, Arch Carraway, the Tilford-Hunt Lumber Company, and the Glena Lumber Company. The mill opened about 1909, and the area was named Durant about the time it received a post office in October 1909. Louie C. Odum was the first post master. He operated his mill until 1913 when he sold out to Arch Caraway of Nacogdoches County. Caraway contracted the sawmill cut to the Tilford-Hunt Lumber Company of Nacogdoches; the latter never had its own mill at or near the town. Louie C. Odum, doing business as the Glena Lumber Company at Durant, regained control of the mill before 1918 but continued to sell the sawmill cut to Tilford-Hunt Lumber.
The Durant Lumber Company was listed in the Southern Lumberman's 1928 directory of sawmills under a Lufkin heading.