Code: | 361 |
Corporate Name: | Southern Pine Lumber Logging Front at Edna |
Folk Name: | N/A |
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Ownership: | Southern Pine Lumber Logging Front |
Years of Operation: | 1927 to 1930 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | |
Locations Served: | Edna
(Polk) |
Counties of Operation: | Polk |
Line Connections: | Texas-Southeastern Railway Company |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | |
History: | Reba Redd Parker recalled that the Southern Pine Lumber logging camp Edna operated from about 1927 to 1930. It was located about one mile north of Goodrich in Polk County. Jack Sanders was the woods foreman. After his death a Mr. Goetzman served in the position. The camp had a company town attached to it. A boarding house, white quarters of twenty-four houses, and black quarters of twelve houses served as tenant housing. A Mr. Gardiner, a local preacher, encouraged home canning by tenants. After the camp closed on June 1, 1930, many of the workers and their families moved to Southern Pine Lumber's Camp Fastrill in Cherokee County. |