Sawmills -- Louisiana

Scope and Contents This collection is Carroll G. Barber's research file on the history of McNary, a Louisiana lumber town that was relocated from Louisiana to Arizona in 1924 when the William Cady Lumber Company acquired property in Arizona. Barber was actively engaged in documenting this community from the 1960s to the 1990s, and correspondence demonstrates Barber's efforts in compiling this information from an array of sources. This move involved two trainloads of Louisiana-based employees and their...