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- 1919-1939 (Creation)
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0.25 Linear Feet
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Biographical history
The Drake Lumber Company ran a sawmill at Princeton (Fla.) from 1904 to 1923. (Owner Gaston Drake named Princeton for his alma mater.) The mill moved to Palm Beach County in 1923, when Slash Pine had been cleared from much of South Dade. The company continued to operate a lumber yard in Miami, and dissolved in 1939
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Scope and content
Stockholders minute book, stock certificates (in poor physical condition), and correspondence relating to Gaston Drake's desired appointment to the federal tariff commission.
Photographs and negatives of the Drake Lumber Company show buildings, equipment, logging operations and mill workers. Also included are images of the Gaston Drake family. Includes five index pages with hand written descrptions.
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- English
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Gift of Ronald Sable, December 1984 Gift of Phillip Werndli, March 2016
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Accessions:
1984-193 (Company records)
2016-202 (photographs and negatives)
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