Crossett Lumber Company
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Crossett Lumber Company
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Crossett Lumber Company
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Edgar Woodward "Cap" Gates, an Iowa lumberman; Charles W. Gates, his brother; Edward S. Crossett, a veteran lumberman; and Dr. John Watzek, an investor, incorporated the Crossett Lumber Company in 1899. They purchased more than 50,000 acres of land in southeast Arkansas and built the company mill town of Crossett, Ark. The Crossett Lumber Company consulted with foresters from Yale University and the Federal Bureau of Forestry to begin sustainable lumbering in the 1920s. It expanded from a lumber to a forest products company in the 1930s and relinquished control of the town of Crossett in 1946. Georgia-Pacific Corporation bought the Crossett Lumber Company in 1962.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/157108297
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80129363
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n80129363
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Banks and banking
Logging
Lumbering
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Arkansas--Crossett
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Crossett (Ark.)
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