| History: | The Sturgis Lumber Company was organized by Albert and Walter Boynton, who together had earlier operated sawmills in Angelina and Newton counties. The Boynton brothers moved their mill from Logtown, Newton County around 1912 to Sturgis, San Augustine County, near White City. The mill appeared in the 1928 edition of the Southern Lumberman's directory of sawmills as manufacturing ash, beech, elm, black, red, and sweet gum, hickory, red and white oak, and longleaf and shortleaf pine lumber at 50,000 feet per day. The Boynton mill operation at Sturgis had a logging road and a town commissary.
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