| Alpha-Numeric Key: | AG-7 |
| Corporate Name: | Clyde C. Jordan |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | Clyde C. Jordan. Homer Sessions. |
| Location: | Chancy Switch, southside of highway 48 and east of highway 49 |
| County: | Angelina |
| Years in Operation: | 10 years |
| Start Year: | 1918 |
| End Year: | 1927 |
| Decades: | 1910-1919,1920-1929 |
| Period of Operation: | 1918 to 1927 |
| Town: | Chancy Switch, west of Lufkin |
| Company Town: | 1 |
| Peak Town Size: | Unknown |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Rough and planed lumber
 Sawmill |
Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
|
|
|
|
| Power Source: | Unknown
| Horse |
Mule |
Oxen |
Water |
| Water Overshot |
Water Turbine |
Diesel |
Unknown |
| Pit |
Steam |
Steam Circular |
Steam Band |
| Gas |
Electricity |
Other |
|
|
| Maximum Capacity: | 35000 |
| Capacity Comments: | Estimated 35,000 feet daily |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
| |
|
| Equipment: | Sawmill and planer |
| Company Tram: |  |
| Associated Railroads: | Eastern Texas Railroad |
| Historicial Development: | Homer Sessions, beginning in 1918, operated a steam-powered sawmill at Chancy Switch, according to Grady Singletary and H. C. Polk, Jr. This small operation was conducted through the store of his father, Rube Sessions, at Wells. It burned in 1921. This is probably the sawmill referred to in Land of the Little Angel. Chancy Switch was adjacent the Homer-Alto Road, near the Bodan Cemetery.
According to Harold W. Willis, grandson of the commissary owner at Chancy Switch during the time of Homer Sessions, a new Clyde Jordan plant at Chancy Switch was built on the old site of Homer Sessions sawmill and remained until 1927 when it had cut out. The old Homer Sessions home became the “Deck Place” (Deach) and is still standing at Pollok. With a school at Chancy Switch, the classes presumably would have been separated by race.
|
| Research Date: | MCJ 12-04-95 |
| Prepared By: | M. Johnson |