Isham Burnett, according to the Texas Big Sandy Project map, had a sawmill in 1854 in Wood County located on the Holly Springs Road. Johans Burnett's sawmill was d in the census of 1860 to be a capital investment of $3,000, with $500 invested in 1,000 sawlogs. Three men were employed at a total monthly wage of $36. The sawmill manufactured 200,00 feet of pine lumber valued at $2,000. The wooden overshot wheel was later converted to an iron wheel. James Alexander Stinson established a large plantation west of Holly Springs in 1860, in Wood County. Stinson owned or supervised more than forty slaves on his property. Between 1865 and 1867, Stinson established a water-powered sawmill on the Mill Creek terminating in the "Floating Glade", near the earlier site of Isham Burnett's sawmill. He had fourteen tenant homes for mill workers. The community was variously known as Stinson, Stinson's Mill, and Speer. Stinson bought Burnet's mill in 1867, giving him two sawmills. The mill continued to be water- powered and milled lumber, ground cornmeal and flour, ginned and pressed cotton under Stinson until 1906. In the Census of 1870, the capital investment of Stinson's sawmill was d to be $5,000. In ten months of operations, ten men were employed at a total wage of $4,000. The sawmill manufactured 800,000 feet of lumber valued at $16,000. The grist mill produced cornmeal valued at $4,000. In the Census of 1880, Stinson reported two mills. Mill No. 1, logged from Clear Branch, was a water-powered turbine circular sawmill, generating eighteen horsepower. Twelve workers were employed at peak production and ten normally. For ten-hour shifts, they were paid $1.00 to $1.50. Stinson paid $1,600 total in wages. The sawmill, from $2,750 in supplies and sawlogs, manufactured 480,000 feet of lumber, worth $5,550. Rowland Gwynne Andrews Lumber Company bought the operation in 1906, who sold it to Waterman Lumber Company in 1916. Waterman ran the plant for about ten years.