Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code:	105
Corporate Name:	Cody sawmill
Folk Name:
Incorporated:
Ownership:	Owner unknown
Years of Operation:	About 1910
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
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Locations Served:	Near Fitzer and three to four miles northwest of Magnolia, in Waller County.
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Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
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History:	Mildred Abshier submitted the following to the East Texas Sawmill Data Base Project. The Cody sawmill was operating a wooden-rail company tram as late as 1911 to bring the yellow pine to the mill. A small community and post office developed around the sawmill. Its ownership may have been the Gruner Lumber Company, but a search of the county records reveals no land transactions by anyone named Cody, Gruner, or the Gruner Lumber Company. The company had a commissary and a wooden-rail, mule-powered company tram, over which logs were hauled. Logging was done by cross-cut sawing. The community post office was located at the sawmill commissary (a “shotgun” building about 30'x50', which was operated by W. H. Lee and a Mrs. Perkins. The building has since been moved to Magnolia and later east of Pinehurst on FR 149, where it now houses a flea market.