In 1906, Garrison-Norton bought a 6,000 acre tract near Pineland and began a pony mill to start clearing land for the construction of a larger mill. T. L. L. Temple of Southern Pine Lumber Company purchased a one-third interest in Garrison-Norton about the time it completed its takeover of several local mills. The mill in 1908 could saw 100,000 feet daily. Mr. Temple's influence in Garrison-Norton grew, resulting in the change of the company name to Pineland- Norton in 1909, and, with eastern financing, gained control of the Garrison operations in the area of Rush and Pineland under the name of the Temple Lumber Company. The various mills and equipment were consolidated at Pineland.
A new Temple mill was built in 1910, burned in 1914, and was rebuilt. Pineland was a company town for several decades. By 1927, Pineland had two hotels, several churches, schools, and one commissary. The high school class of 1929 sent twelve of its graduates onto higher education. The mill received an electric light set early in the Temple years, and its one-time shipping clerk, Eck G. Prud'homme, remembered that the town had water and lights when he was transferred to Diboll in 1916. The white tenants had home electricity two to three decades before their rural contemporaries in the county. By 1930, the town had a movie house that regularly provided current films.
In 1967, the mill dropped hardwood milling which had averaged 20,000,000 feet annually in order to upgrade pine lumber processing to 60,000,000 feet annually. In 1982, Temple EasTex was building a chip mill/log processing facility on 13.5 acres. By the 1990s, the operation was controlled by Temple Inland Forest Products, Inc., of Diboll.