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Code: 159
Corporate Name: Lake Creek Lumber Company
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership: Lake Creek Lumber Company. Donnelly Lumber Company.
Years of Operation: 1907 to 1909
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:
Locations Served: Virgie (Ulmer) Walker
Counties of Operation: Montgomery
Line Connections:
Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment: 1907: a 10-ten Shay locomotive and 600,000 logs on tram worth $3300. 1909: a 38-ton Baldwin locomotive
History: Donnelly Lumber Company at Virgie, near Mill Creek, in Montgomery County, sold its mill and assets to the Lake Creek Lumber Company, in November, 1907. The Lake Creek Lumber Company should not be confused with the company of the same name working in 1897 as part of the Edward N. Oualline interests. Among the assets sold to Lake Creek Lumber were a 10-ton Shay locomotive and a tram road. The Lake Creek Lumber Company sold a 38-ton to the Caro Northern Railroad in 1909.