Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key:	SH-88
Corporate Name:	Z. D. (or Z B.) Dunaway
Local Name:
Owner Name:	Z. D. (Z. B. ) Dunaway
Location:	Seven miles east of Timpson
County:	Shelby
Years in Operation:	3 years
Start Year:	1905
End Year:	1907
Decades:	1900-1909
Period of Operation:	1905 to 1907
Town:	East of Timpson
Company Town:	2
Peak Town Size:	978 in 1905
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill:	Lumber Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown Other
Power Source:	One Ames 10-inch by 12-inch steam engine and one Ames 44-inch by 14-foot tubular boiler Horse Mule Oxen Water Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity:	20000: 1906
Capacity Comments:	20,000 feet daily
Produced:	Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board Treated Other
Equipment:	A Curtis Dixie ‘E' Sawmill, one steam engine, one tubular boiler, a rope feed, an 18 foot carriage, seven 8-inch trucks, 48 feet of car track, two head blocks, one set works, two duplex sawmill dogs, and two 54-inch circular rip saws.
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads:	Unknown
Historicial Development:	Z. D. Dunaway operated a sawmill about seven miles east of Timpson in the years before 1910. In 1905, he mortgaged his engine, boiler, and sawmill against his entire cut at the sawmill. In 1907, mortgaged to Dilley & Son the following: one Ames 10-inch by 12-inch steam engine, one Ames 44-inch by 14-foot tubular boiler, a right-hand Curtis Dixie ‘E' sawmill, a rope feed, an 18 foot carriage, seven 8-inch trucks, forty-eight feet of car track, two 38-inch Dixie No 2 head blocks, one Dixie set works, two duplex sawmill dogs, and two Curtis 54-inch circular rip saws. This mill have evolved into the Dunaway & Risinger mill.
Research Date:	MCJ 02-29-96
Prepared By:	M. Johnson