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David C. Hackney
David C. Hackney was one of many early East Texas sawmillers who followed the construction of the railroads to tap the most easily accessible pine stumpage. In 1880, he operated a sawmill on the Houston East and West Texas Railway, south of the Trinity River, on the Houston East West Texas Railroad, around New Caney. By 1884, a railroad directory listed him as having a sawmill at Phoenix, Polk County. He was sawing both pine and hardwood, and doing his own logging.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
PK
Owner Name
David C. Hackney
Location
Phoenix, near Leggett
County
Polk
Years in Operation:
1
Start Year:
1884
End Year:
1884
Decades:
1880-1889
Period of Operation:
1884
Town:
Phoenix
Company Town:
2
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2
Mill Type
Product
Power Source
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