Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key:	HA-94
Corporate Name:	P. C. Post
Local Name:	Post Mills
Owner Name:	P. C. Post
Location:	Four miles south of Hallsville
County:	Harrison
Years in Operation:	9 years
Start Year:	1897
End Year:	1905
Decades:	1890-1899,1900-1909
Period of Operation:	1897 to 1905
Town:	Hallsville
Company Town:	1
Peak Town Size:	416 in 1905
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill:	Manufactured lumber Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown Other
Power Source:	Steam Horse Mule Oxen Water Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity:
Capacity Comments:	Unknown
Produced:	Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board Treated Other
Equipment:	Planing mill
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads:	Texas & Pacific
Historicial Development:	P. C. Post was planing lumber south of Hallsville as early as 1897, according to Harrison County records. That year and in 1898, mortgages reveal that the mill was located in a brick warehouse in the rear of the J. B. Mundy saloon. Post had received the mill from a Trustee sale, Trustee being R. B. Levy. Equipment included a 12-inch by 20-inch steam engine, a 44-inch by 14-foot boiler, a three-saw gang edger, a cut-off saw, shafts and pulleys, six head of livestock, and a Bender log wagon. The mill was listed in the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, January 1905. The Cheney and Post at Beckville, in Panola County, may have had a connection with P. C. Post's planing mill south of Hallsville, in Harrison County. Post earlier had a mill about ten miles southwest of Marshall.
Research Date:	MCJ 02-05-96
Prepared By:	M Johnson