Posted by JB(MS) on 3/29/2008, 9:18 pm, in reply to "Dag nab it, JB :("
66.175.148.151
Wasn't about to post any sites from around here 
. I ran across the Sanborn website back in 1997 or 98 and downloaded a couple of maps of Amory, but had forgotten about it until someone posted about it on one of the Findmall forums. After Jim got off work today he and I spent a couple of hours checking out a few places on the west side of town that's woods with heavy undergrowth now, but before 1920 there was a cotton oil mill, a cotton gin, a dairy creamery and a lumber yard where Houston Brothers sawmill stacked their lumber for shipping on the railroad. The only thing there now, besides the woods, is a communications tower.
Houston Brothers, pronounced Hows-ton, sold out in 1907 or 1908 and moved to Vicksburg, but the tags they put on their lumber shipments while they were in business here are very rare. I'm sure there's a few more around but I know of only one. That one was plowed up in the 1930's in a field that was part of the lumber yard where the lumber was stacked, about 3 miles west of here near the sawmill at Bigbee, before being moved to the yard here in town for shipping. The son of the man who plowed up the tag still has it. He was made an offer of $200 for it in the late 1980's but turned it down. Hopefully a couple were lost where they had the lumber yard here in town, but it's gonna be tough to hunt in there as the wild hedges and wild plum trees are almost solid. Photo is an 1890's drawing for a newspaper ad of Houston Brothers sawmill at Bigbee. The lumber yard was said to have been a mile wide and a mile long but it was actually a little less that a half mile east to west and not quite three fourths of a mile north to south. Nothing where the lumber yard was now except lakes and piles of sand from gravel being pumped out.
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