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Owners. Date of building. Location. 



John Strader & Henry Reger 1806 Spruce run. 



John Jackson 1810 Buckhannon 



Zedekiah Morgan &... ) -,o-l/^ ^ 



Patrick Peebles [ ^^'^ 



Aaron Gould 1813 French Creek, (Meadville) 



James Bunten 1825 Sago. 



Elbridge and John Burr 1832 French Creek. 



Aaron Liggett 1853 Glady Fork. 



Chipps & Wamsley 1854 Grassy run. 



Lewis 1874 Big Sand run. 



Hinkle . .1878 Big Sand run. 



There were also B. W. Phillips' mill and Houghton's mill 

 on Laurel Fork of French creek, Abram Crites' mill at Selby- 

 ville on the Buckhannon river, Pringle's mill at Alton on the 

 Buckhanon river, Wilson's mill at Stillman on the Little 

 Kanawha, Marshall Wingrove's mill on French creek, and 

 several others. 



It is probable that Abraham Hinkle operated the first 

 steam saw mill on Cutrights run, a tributary of the Buckhan- 

 non river, in the year 1867. About ten years later W. F. 

 Hollen built a mill of the same kind in Union district and 

 operated it for a number of years. 



The commercial lumber industry began with the building 

 of the railroad to Buckhannon in 1883 and was greatly 

 increased by its extension up the Buckhannon river a few years 

 later. Since that time there has been an extensive industry 

 throughout the whole Buckhannon river basin carried on by 

 scores of large and small operators. A few of these are men- 

 tioned below: 



Floyd Brown and William Mearns both operated mills on 

 the waters of Little Kanawha, beginning about 1885. The 

 former sawed at Stillman, Get Out run, and in other places in 

 that region; the latter, with his sons, continued to operate for 

 many years in the vicinity of Rock Cave and in other parts of 

 the southern end. Fidler and Huff had a steam mill on 

 Kanawha run as early as 1888. Fidler 's mill on the Kanawha 



