Great Southern Lumber Company
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The Great Southern Lumber Company was founded in 1906 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, by Frank Henry Goodyear and Charles Waterhouse Goodyear, and others investors mostly the from Buffalo, New York, area.
Colonel William Henry Sullivan, the "Father of Bogalusa", was the sawmill manager and the town manager. Sullivan's goal was to create a city that lasted, so reforestation was introduced into the area.[1]
The Great Southern Lumber Company (1906–1938) was sold in 1938. The current[when?] owner is the Temple-Inland Corporation which is the largest employer in the Washington Parish, Louisiana.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ "Perpetual Timber Supply Through Reforestation as Basis For Industrial Permanency" by Courtenay De Kalb in The Timberman (July, 1921, 8 pages)
[edit] Bibliography
- C. W. Goodyear, "Bogalusa Story"
- Janice M. Berfield, "Washington Parish, Louisiana", 1968
- Hon. Prentiss B. Carter, "History of Washington Parish"
- Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana: History, Links, Maps, and Photos
