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Exploring 50 acres of land where the Jacobi Lumber Company had it's mills. Jacobi Lumber Co. - Molino (Escambia County) In 1910 and 1912 they had a 10 mile logging railroad with a 50,000 foot capacity mill. In 1917 and 1920 the logging railroad shows as 8 miles. In 1924 they had a 15 mile logging railroad with a 70,000 foot capacity mill. Before the Jacobi Lumber Company was in business, the land on which the mills were located on were operated by the firm name of Molino Brick & Lumber Company. Then the site was occupied by the name of Jacobi & Son Lumber Company, up until the name was changed to the Jacobi Lumber Company. The primary share holder of the company was a man by the name of Peter Kuntz who was a multi-millionaire lumberman from ohio. The Jacobi Lumber Company was liquidated in the year of 1929, and the structures were all dismantled.
A Perdido River Adventure
Perdido River , historically Rio Perdido (1763), is a 65.4-mile-long (105.3 km) river in the U.S. States of Alabama and Florida; the Perdido, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, forms part of the boundary between the two states along nearly its entire length and drains into the Gulf of Mexico. During the early 19th century it played a central role in a series of rotating boundary changes and disputes among France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. This is...
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Just checking in here to conduct some edits to this page. Gotta make sure everything sounds about right.
A visit to an old family cemetery...
It was just yesterday that I took a trip up to an old cemetary. Vaughn Cemetary as us locals call it, was established between 1834 and 1848 when the first interment took place there. In this graveyard, you'll see an obelisk like gravestone of a Virgina born man by the name of Thomas Cooper. He came down with Andrew Jackson to Pensacola, and in 1834, established a community that was known at the time as Durant's Bluff and is known today as Molino. From what I've read, Mr. Cooper constructed a sawmill, right off the Escambia River which is less than a mile from the location of this old graveyard. I visited that site with members of a local a historical society when they got an invitation for a tour from a archeology team to team to do so. Mr. Cooper also built a grist mill on a stream known today as Wilder's Branch, which just happens to be an estimated 50 yards from here. I wouldn't mind finding remnants to that old grist mill though. Anyway, this old cemetary is...
Sometime Soon
Not today, probably not tomorrow, but eventually, I'll venture out, deep into the woods to mess around in a site where a lumber company used to be located back in the old days. Pictures will show areas of where a company office, artesian well, electric light plant, boiler room, planer mill, dry kilns, and a sawmill used to be.