Crowell and Spencer Engine #400

Caleb T. Crowell, an Arkansas lumberman who had formed the Black Lake Lumber Company at Dubberly in 1889, stopped at Glenmora in 1893 and fell in with Alexander B. Spencer. That April they bought their first timberland, and two months later an idle sawmill that became Long Leaf. Spencer moved to San Antonio in 1902, and the Crowell family ran the place for the next 67 years. During the Second World War the company president, R. D. Crowell, wrote to President Roosevelt objecting to the depletion of old-growth longleaf.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 15 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Valentine Lake Recreation Area — 18 mi
  A 46-acre Kisatchie National Forest lake dug by Civilian Conservation Corps crews in the 1930s, with a campground and the head of the Wild Azalea Trail.
• Kent Plantation House — 21 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 22 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• Clyde Log Skidder — steps away
• The "Roundhouse", The Machine Shop and the "Car Knockers Shed" — steps away
• Red River and Gulf RR Locomotive #106 — steps away
• Long Leaf Sawmill (3) — steps away