Riddle & Needham
The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported in September 1906, that the Riddle & Needham sawmill plant was producing 25,000 feet daily in 1906 at Laneville in Rusk County. The report confirms the assertion by the The Heritage of Rusk County, Texas, that Jim Riddle of Laneville had a large and prosperous sawmill on the J. F. Watts property. A J. D. W. Riddle was buying land in Laneville as early as 1901, and the firm of Riddle & Irby was buying timber around Laneville in 1907.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
RU
Owner Name
Riddle & Needham
Location
Laneville, on J. F. Watts property, Highway 225 and Highway 1798
County
Rusk
Years in Operation:
1
Start Year:
1906
End Year:
1906
Decades:
- 190-1909
Period of Operation:
1906
Town:
Laneville, southwest of Henderson
Company Town:
2
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2