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Chicago Mills \u00b7 Back to collection home <\/a><\/p>\n[\/heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]\n

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In 1898 Hermann Paepcke purchased a sawmill and twenty-five thousand acres of standing timber near Lake Ferguson in Greenville, Mississippi, from J.H Leavenworth. There he established the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company, which grew to over one hundred twenty-five thousand acres of land by 1909.The company operated as the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company through the 1920s. Other subsidiaries of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company were established in Blytheville and Helena, Arkansas, and in Cairo, Illinois.<\/p>\n

This collection contains Chicago Mill and Lumber Company memorabilia ranging from the 1950s-2000s.<\/p>\n

Box1:<\/p>\n

Chicago Mill and Lumber Company Safe Worker 1980 Jacket\"mills1\"<\/a>
\nColumbus and Greenville Boxcar from Lionel Electric Trains
\nHenderson and Baird Howe 77th<\/sup> year miniature baseball bat for Bruner Ivory
\nSmall metal\u00a0 National Safe Deposit
\nGreenville Steam Bottling Works glass bottle
\nA small locked wooden box
\nA gear from the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company<\/p>\n

Box 2:<\/p>\n

Polk\u2019s Greenville, MS City Directory 1956
\nA stick of Green Lumber Crayons
\nAn Old Piece of Equipment (wood, bolts, chain, hooks)
\nChicago Mill and Lumber Company certified C. Fred Berry
\nApron from Chicago Mill and Lumber Company
\nDesk Calendar year 2000
\nMitten with #2 Greenville C.C., Greenville, MS<\/p>\n

Box 3:<\/p>\n

Golden Pot
\nOld Tape Measurer\"chicago\"<\/a>
\nA rusted Nail
\nA big nail
\nChain and 2 objects attached to the chain<\/p>\n

H.N. Alexander and Sons Apron
\nA small locked wooden bank vault
\nElectric car train, Columbus and Greenville
\nBooks of matches (31)
\nA small cotton bale
\nVisitors pass button to Chicago Mill and Lumber Co.
\nA small ceramic pitcher
\nU.S. Army Air Forces Greenville Army Ashtray
\nUnited States Army Medical Department saucer
\nDepartment of the Navy saucer
\n3 Lumber Crayons
\n3 stamps Chicago Mill and Lumber Company
\n2 Books of Matches
\nSmall rusty nail
\n2 pencils
\n2 buttons C.M. and L. Co 1178 Greenville, Ms
\nBottle Cap opener
\nThis page is just a small component of sub-series IV (Material Collections) of the McCormick collection. To view the collection in its entirety please visit Delta State University Archives and Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi or for more information please contact the Delta State Archives at 662.846.4780<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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