The Joseph P. Pritchard multi-purpose mill manufactured lumber and ground meal. Valued at $4,000, it had raw materials including $361 in sawlogs and $4,000 worth of corn. It carried a monthly payroll of four men averaging $20 each. It produced 160,000 feet of lumber valued at $1,780 and 3,700 bushels of cornmeal valued at $4,600.
Block notes that “Pritchard was a Baptist preacher closely associated with two Houston County churches between 1860 and 1873.”
Randolph was an early Houston County community situated to the east of Crockett. Pritchard probably shipped any export of cornmeal and lumber at Hall's Bluff and Alabama on the Trinity River. The coming of the International & Great Northern to Crockett in 1872, with greater opportunity for transportation, led to the demise of this early East Texas community.