Westside Flume & Lumber Company
1889 - 1962
May 31, 1889 Henry J. Crocker, Wellington Gregg, Thomas Bullock and Charles Gardner formed the Westside Flume and Lumber Company, for a total cost of 361,000.00 dollars. The mill was built, and by the end of the year was in operation, and by 1900 was producing 18,000 board feet of lumber per day.
In 1925 Westside was sold to Pickering Lumber Co. and after the Depression in 1934 Westside was back in control and continued to operate until April 19, 1962 when a strike and a devastating fire shut the mill down for the last time.
Marker is on Tuolumne Road (County Road E17) 6.4 miles from Mono Way (Old Highway 108), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
