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Wallisville Mills |
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Location: 1.5 miles above Wallisville, East of the river just below Lake Miller (1885) near Dorr's Island - Chambers County, Texas
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| Corporate Name: Wallisville Mills Local Name: Wallisville Mills Owner/Company Affiliation: Wallisville Mills. C. E. Parker & Henry S. Mackin. William Gallon & C. E. Parker. Perkins, Augusta Lemuel, and H. F. Levy. Brooks & Perkins. John Wooten. Location: One and a half miles above Wallisville and east of the river just below Lake Miller (1885) near Dorr's Island County: Chambers Comment on Periods of Operation: 1880s Capacity Comments: About 10,000 feet daily Type of Mill: Lumber Power Source: Steam Equipment: A circular sawmill, with a 52-inch saw Mill Pond: ? City/Town: above Wallisville near Dorr's Island Company Town?: ? Size of Company Town at Peak: Unknown Associated Railroads: Unknown Historical Development: Brooks and Perkins operated a sawmill on Dorr's Island in 1884, on the west side of the Trinity one and a half miles above Wallisville. In February 1884, Brooks had dropped from the ownership and was replaced by August Lemuel and H. F. Levy of Harris County, who with Perkins, sold the mill that month for $1600 to the Chambers County clerk, John R. Wooten. Wooten sold the mill to William Gallon and C. E. Parker. Henry S. Mackin replaced Gallon; Parker and Mackin continued operations under the new name of the "Wallisville Mills." How long the sawmill operated and the nature of its cessation are unknown at this time. By 1885 the Wooten mill was located on the east side of the river just below Lake Miller. Comments: Data Sheet: M. Johnson Date Prepared: MCJ 01-02-95 Bibliography: Margaret S. Henson and Kevin Ladd. Chambers County: A Pictorial History. Norfolk: 1988. 136. Chamber County Deed Records. Vol D: 53, 112-1117. "Cultural Resources Evaluation of the J. J. Mayes Farm and the Cummings Lumber Mill, Wallisville Lake Project Area, Texas." Baton Rouge, Texas: privately printed, 1985. Prepared by Charles E. Pearson, William Louis Fullen, Margaret S. Henson, and George J. Castille. 27-28. Alpha: CH Number: 25 Years of Operation: Start: 1880 |
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