J. V. Lankford & Sons of Redland constructed and operated a sawmill at a place they called Collwood. It also carried the names Hoshall and Bitterweed Flat at various times. The rail switch was located at nearby Fairchild Switch on the Houston East & West Texas. The mill town was about three miles north of Diboll and four south of Lufkin on the rail line. Lankford sold the mill before 1917 to parties unknown, the year before Luke Wright bought it. He probably moved his sawmill equipment from the mills that he was closing at Davisville and Cochran Switch that year. Wright employed a work force of about sixty-five blacks and whites. The sawmill town included several rows of houses, a commissary, two boarding houses, segregated churches and schools, and a Masonic lodge. Wright expanded the daily cutting capacity from 10,000 feet to 25,000 feet and added a planing mill. He operated it at least until 1928, for he was listed in a directory with a mile at Lufkin. Several fires occurred before the timber cut out.
Other owners were Olham, Brown, John Oliver (mid-30's), and Switchhammer.