Sawmills & Electric Plant

Count the machinery and the scale of Fullerton shows: 25 planers, 12 dry kilns, a trolley system moving cars around the mill and a loading dock that could fill 30 railcars at once, turning out about 400,000 board feet in a ten-hour shift. The mill cost roughly $3.5 million, and a 50,000-gallon tank and a fire pump rated at 1,000 gallons a minute guarded it against fire. Over twenty years it is estimated to have cut 2.25 billion board feet from 4.2 million trees.

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

• Fullerton Mill & Town — steps away
• Sugartown — 12 mi
• Wolf Rock Cave — 13 mi
• Camp Polk Heritage Families — 14 mi