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C. P. Massey Lumber Co

This mill was reported by the Southern Industrial & Lumber Review, in 1906. Massey began his career in 1902 with a mortgage that produced for $300 a shingle mill, a 48-inch by 10-inch wood splitter, a log wagon, a Houston Standard and Gamble 25-horsepower steam engine and an HSG boiler. The report indicates that Massey had improved his manufacturing process. The mill was not listed in the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, January 1907.
The mill had probably been moved some miles to the west in San Augustine County. T. L. Bobbitt, in an oral interview with Vernon L. Beasley, recalled the Massey Mill at Massey's Crossing over the Ayish Bayou. The sawmill community had a commissary and tenant housing.
Unidentified Unidentified Hebron, just west of Highway 705 San
T. L. Bobbitt, in an oral interview with Vernon L. Beasley, recalled an unidentified sawmill located at Hebron, just west of Highway 705, in the 1930s. A well serviced the mill. This may have been the Massey Mill near Hebron.

Mill Details

Alpha Numeric Key:

SA

Owner Name

C. P. Massey

Location

Massey's Crossing on the Ayish Bayou, south of Hebron

County

San Augustine

Years in Operation:

14

Start Year:

1907

End Year:

1920

Decades:

1900-1909,1910-1919,1920-1929

Period of Operation:

1907 to about 1920

Town:

Massey's Crossing on the Ayish Bayou, south of Hebron

Company Town:

1

Peak Town Size:

Commissary and tenant housing

Mill Pond:

2

Mill Type
Product
Power Source
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