Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 361
Corporate Name: Southern Pine Lumber Logging Front at Edna
Folk Name: N/A
Incorporated:
Ownership: Southern Pine Lumber Logging Front
Years of Operation: 1927 to 1930
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
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
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.