Fork Lift
1957 Hyster Model RC 150 (Used Butane Fuel) The fork lift was used to move stacks of lumber. It greatly reduced the tedious hand stacking of lumber board by board.
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John Thomas Stark
Patriarch of the Orange County Stark family, John T. Stark was born in Pebble County, Ohio, in 1821 and moved to East Texas in 1840. He settled in Newton County in the 1850s where he read law...
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Dry Kilns, Old & New
The DRY KILNS were necessary to transform the lumber from its green (or wet) condition into a low-moisture-content product for sales and economical transport. The kilns enabled the management of...
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- lumber
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"Loggers Dream"
This shop-built yarding outfit on a Ford F6 truck was a very adaptable logging aid. It traveled at truck speeds on the highways and was quick and easy to set up and take down.It could pull...
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Locomotive #400 - 1919
Baldwin 4-6-0Standard-gauge steam engine. #400 hauled log cars to the Long Leaf sawmill. Its last run was December 9, 1952. 4-6-0 means:4 Wheels (2 pair) in front, 6 driving wheels, and 0...
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Calvary Baptist Church Bayou Chicot
Founded in 1812. Joseph Willis was the first Baptist minister to preach the Gospel west of the Mississippi River. Between 1804-1805, Willis arrived in Bayou Chicot, Louisiana, where he...
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City of Ville Platte - City Hall
This building was purchased by the Cecil R. Lebas administration on December 18,1977. To preserve a historic building and landmark of Evangeline Parish, to serve the people of Ville Platte as City...
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National Register of Historic Places
Built in 1914, this building was the second location of the Evangeline Bank & Trust Company until 1976. The original 1906 site of the bank was 102 West Main Street which is also on the...
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Old Planer Mill Machinery
Before the 1956 remodel, this equipment was used in the planer mill. It is a variety of equipment from planers to molding machines that were replaced by newer, more efficient machines in 1956. A...
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Crowell and Spencer Engine #400
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, PA, Construction #51175, January, 1919 Baldwin Class 10-32-D #1167, type 4-6-0.Delivered at Long Leaf, February, 1919, placed in service,...
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"Jitney"
The "Jitneys" replaced mules and manpower in moving lumber buggies around the mill yard. The 2 jitneys were built in the machine shop at Long Leaf from Chevrolet engines and scrap metal under the...
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Lumber Carts
Before the 1950's the planer mill, sawmill and warehouses were connected by a series of wooden tramways. These lumber carts were used to transport rough and unfinished lumber and molding between...
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Clyde Double Drum- Cable Outhaul Log Skidder
The machine In front of you is the last remaining example of what was known as a "Clyde Skidder". Developed by the Clyde Iron Works of Duluth MN, shortly after 1902 and modified several...
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The McGiffert Log Loader
The McGiffert Log Loader was a rail hauled, log loading machine invented in 1901 by John R. McGiffert. Several hundred of these machines were built for use in North America, alone. Today, only 5...
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Corliss Steam Engine
Circa 1935 Allis-Chalmers Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This large stationary steam engine provided power to the planing mill next door. The double-spoke flywheel in 12 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. wide. It...
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Clyde Log Skidder
Clyde Log Skidder 1919 — Clyde Iron Works Duluth, Minnesota — Wood burning, steam powered, 4 line, re-haul skidder on wheels. A wire rope was run from its metal booms to the woods where...
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Red River and Gulf RR Locomotive #106
Red River and Gulf #106 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive works in September, 1923. It is a 4-6-0 type locomotive and is very similar to Crowell #400. Its builders number was 57203 and it...
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Salem Baptist Church
Organized September 11, 1854, by elders J.L. Simpson and George H. Washington. Oldest church in the old 8th Ward. Church was a public school in early 1900's. Destroyed by storms in...
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The “Roundhouse", The Machine Shop and the “Car Knockers Shed”
These buildings were at the heart of the Red River & Gulf RR, and the Crowell's lumbering operations. The engine house, which was known as the "roundhouse" despite its shape, was where...
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Bradbury Building
National Historic Landmark plaque for the beautiful Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles.