Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key: AN-8
Corporate Name: Aycock and Poole
Local Name:
Owner Name: Aycock and R. H. Poole. E.C. Henderson Planing Mill
Location: Frankston: 175 and 155
County: Anderson
Years in Operation: 9 years
Start Year: 1920
End Year: 1928
Decades: 1920-1929
Period of Operation: 1920s
Town: Frankston
Company Town: 1
Peak Town Size: 3000 in 1928; 1109 in 1934
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill: Rough and finished shortleaf yellow pine
Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill
Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper
Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown
Other
Power Source: Steam
Horse Mule Oxen Water
Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown
Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band
Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity: 25000: 1928
Capacity Comments: 25,000 feet daily in 1928
Produced:
Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers
Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading
Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board
Treated Other
Equipment: Circular sawmill and planing mill, dry kiln
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads: Southern Pacific
Historicial Development: Aycock and R. H. Poole owned operated a sawmill plant at Frankston. The Aycock and Poole circular sawmill plant at Frankston appears in the Southern Lumberman's 1928 edition of Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills. It could cut 25,000 board feet daily. Poole moved to Avinger in 1926 to take over the E. C. Henderson planing mill there. Aycock and Poole did not survive the Great Depression in Frankston. They were not listed in the Lumbermen's Credit Rating Book, October 1934. According to Frank McKenzie, the Poole sawmill suffered a serious fire.
Research Date: JKG 10-11-93, MCJ 03-06-96
Prepared By: J. Gerland, M. Johnson