Fullerton Mill & Town

Fullerton paid in cash, not scrip, and housed its people by race. The Gulf Lumber Company, owned by Samuel Holmes Fullerton, built about 400 houses for white workers with running water, bathrooms and electricity, and 144 cottages for Black workers, which also had electricity. Two miles south lay Rustville, a turpentine camp of 129 cottages named for Paul D. Rust, the company's Boston-based secretary. The last log was cut on May 6, 1927, and the final whistle ended mill and town together. The site was listed on the National Register in 1986.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Valentine Lake Recreation Area — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Sawmills & Electric Plant — steps away
• Sugartown — 12 mi
• Wolf Rock Cave — 12 mi
• Camp Polk Heritage Families — 14 mi