Cleveland Veneer Company
The Lufkin Daily News noted in 1943 that the Cleveland Veneer Company had been operating a veneer mill at Cleveland for five years. It was a subsidiary of Indiana Wire Board Box Company. The Texas Forest News reported in early 1941 that the company, which had been closed since the spring before, had received a military contract for constructing shipping boxes for bombs, bomb sights, and airplane motors, according to E. S. Barnhill, the manager. Forty workers, at a monthly total salary of $4,000, would produce boxes from 200,000 log scale feet of lumber monthly.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
PK
Owner Name
Cleveland Veneer Company, manager J. J. Barrow
Location
Cleveland
County
Polk
Years in Operation:
6
Start Year:
1938
End Year:
1943
Decades:
1930-1939,1940-1949
Period of Operation:
1938 to at least 1943
Town:
Cleveland
Company Town:
2
Peak Town Size:
302 in 1906, 5000 in 1928; 1422 in 1934
Mill Pond:
2