Little River Lumber Company: mill

Little River Lumber Company: mill

Industries

Lumber

Lumber trade

Sawmill workers

Sawmills

The Little River Lumber Company was one of 18 logging operations that, together, owned about 85% of the area that is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Five companies had major holdings, including Champion Fibre, Suncrest Lumber, Ravensford Lumber, Morton Butler Lumber, and the Little River Lumber Company. By the 1920s, 300,000 acres had been clear-cut. The last log went through the Little River Mill at Townsend, Tennessee in July 1939.

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Historic Photographs Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1939-07-06

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photographs

eng

StillImage

23308

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2015-07-01

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Blount County (Tenn.)

Townsend (Tenn.)

3.5" x 4.25"(dimension)

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