| Historicial Development: | In 1918, a Popp's Mill is located on a map of the Nacogdoches Southeastern Railroad, the tram road of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company. It was located about four miles southeast of Nacogdoches, just northwest of Hampton.
The background of this mill is unclear. The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported in September 1908 that Charles Popp once owned a stave mill “about ten miles south of Nacogdoches,” probably near LaNana Bayou, and that he “recently” sold this mill to C.W. Pope of Illinois, who planned to relocate his family to Texas. No definite connection can be made, but the same trade journal reported several years earlier, in October 1905, that J. P. Popp, a representative of the Louis Verner Stave Company of Shreveport, Louisiana, a concern which employed 700 men in the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana, was looking to create a Texas branch office in Houston.
John Schmidt and Charles Popp, in 1919, leased a right of way from C. R. Mayes for five years. The right of way ran along the Jeff Parish tract on the north side of the Nacogdoches and Marion road. The purpose of the right of way was to service the Schmidt and Popp Mill. |