West Yellow Pine Company

Biographical Note:
John W. West, of Lowndes County, Georgia, with his brothers held interest in various enterprises in Georgia and Florida. Besides a lumber mill and a store (possibly a company store) at Olympia in Lowndes County, Georgia, these records indicate that they incorporated a railway, the Madison Southern Railway, between Madison, Florida and Deadman's Bay, some 60 miles in order to facilitate shipment of their lumber from their mill.

Scope and Content:
John W. West held interest in various enterprises in Georgia and Florida. Besides a lumber mill and a store (possibly a company store) at Olympia in Lowndes County, Georgia, these records indicate that they incorporated a railway, the Madison Southern Railway, between Madison, Florida and Deadman's Bay, some 60 miles in order to facilitate shipment of their lumber from their mill. In the West Yellow Pine Company records are found correspondence, letter press books, time books, invoices, lumber orders, lumber reports, railway waybills, and other miscellaneous records. The majority of the collection is dated from 1900-1916 although some items, including the seventeen items in the additional collection, are dated from 1855 through 1899.

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