D. M. Angle and G. H. Stryker, first cousins, owned and operated a large and well-equipped sawmill plant for the place and time in Walker County. It was located about nine miles southeast of Huntsville on the league of Theodore Bennett. According to Walker County records, some of the equipment included, besides the sawmill and planing mill, a McGowan steam engine and boiler, a Gary edger, a carriage and headblocks, five lumber trucks, three lumber cars, a resaw, a Griffith and Wedge portable steam engine and boiler, eight log wagons, one blacksmith shop, two carry logs, two mules, and fifty-six oxen.
By 1884, the cousins had move on to new sawmill locations in Polk County.