Lindsey Springs Logging Camp

The 1900 federal census counted 110 people in 25 households at Lindsey Springs, spread across three residential sections of small wood-framed company homes. A boarding house held 11 men. Residents worked as teamsters, log contractors, foremen, commissary clerks, carpenters, a saw filer and a tie maker, and one was a potter. Others ran the post office or cooked meals, and a doctor served at times. The narrow-gauge line built in 1900 to carry logs to Diboll was a rarity in the piney woods, where most camps relied on horses and wagons.

What the plaque says

Lindsey Springs Logging Camp The naturally occurring Lindsey Springs, located approximately 3/4 of a mile northeast of this location, became the site in 1899 of the Southern Pine Lumber Company's first logging camp. the springs provided an important water source for this vital camp, which by 1900 included company housing for about 110 people, a store, school, and a church. A narrow gauge railroad transported logs from Lindsey Springs to the mill in nearby Diboll. The area's marketable timber had been cut by 1906, resulting in the camps relocation to an area west of Diboll in Trinity County. (1993)

Where it stands

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