| Alpha-Numeric Key: | SJ-60 |
| Corporate Name: | Ogletree Hardwood Lumber Company. |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | Ogletree Hardwood Lumber Company. George Royden Ogletree and Seaborn Ogletree. |
| Location: | Milledge Switch, between Urbana and Shepherd |
| County: | San Jacinto |
| Years in Operation: | 25 years |
| Start Year: | 1910 |
| End Year: | 1934 |
| Decades: | 1910-1919,1920-1929,1930-1939 |
| Period of Operation: | After 1910 to at least 1934 |
| Town: | Milledge Switch, near Shepherd |
| Company Town: | 2 |
| Peak Town Size: | Unknown |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Lumber
 Sawmill |
Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
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| Power Source: | Steam
| Horse |
Mule |
Oxen |
Water |
| Water Overshot |
Water Turbine |
Diesel |
Unknown |
| Pit |
 Steam |
Steam Circular |
Steam Band |
| Gas |
Electricity |
Other |
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| Maximum Capacity: | |
| Capacity Comments: | Unknown |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Sawmill |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Texas & New Orleans and, after 1906, Trinity Valley & Northern |
| Historicial Development: | George Royden Ogletree returned from Indian Territory about 1908 and operated a sawmill at Shepherd for several years before shifting operations to Talco, about 1915, in Titus County, and then finally settling on Livingston. Ogletree at Shepherd bought pine timber and hardwood from F. S. Bailey in 1928. Bailey gave Ogletree the right to access the property, to construct wagon roads, trams, and skidways. Ogletree's company at Shepherd, later named the Ogletree Hardwood Lumber Company, appeared again in 1934 in the San Jacinto County records, identifying Ogletree mills at Shepherd (really Milledge Switch), Crockett, New Caney, Livingston, and Center. He had another mill at Oakwood, in Leon County.
A 1920 mortgage lists the property as including mules, wagons, harness “connected with sawmill near Shepherd [and] 1 sawmill engine, boiler, eqpt. complete; all lumber now on grounds, all logs to be sawed into lumber . . . at Milledge Switch.”
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| Research Date: | MCJ 02-23-96 |
| Prepared By: | M Johnson |