By 1880, the company milled four million board feet of lumber. He soon built a huge mill at Greenville, which would become the largest in the state sith some 700 employees. Louis Railroad, he expanded his lumbering business to all parts of the Wayne County. After the war, he spent some time in Iowa before moving to southeastern Missouri, where he established a lumber business. Clarkson was very successful and with the organization of the Williamsville, Greenville and St. When he was just 16, he joined the Confederate army as a member of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry under command of General J. The large Clarkson Sawmill was owned by James Livingston Clarkson who was originally from Essex County, Virginia. Post office in Mill Spring, Missouri by Kathy Alexander.
Louis, Missouri, to Texarkana, Arkansas, as well as several locations in southeast Missouri. More familiarly called the Iron Mountain Railway, this historic line would eventually run from St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway extended its line south from Pilot Knob to Piedmont, in 1871, there was a hub of large logging operations to meet the demands of a country desperately trying to rebuild and expand after the Civil War. As an incentive, he donated a right-of-way through his land and even though this route required a cut through two mountains, the railroad agreed. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway to extend their line through Piedmont to Mill Spring and then to Williamsville, rather than the original planned route through Patterson and Greenville.
He then organized Company D, Twelfth Regiment, of the Missouri State Militia, of which he became captain.Īfter he returned from the war, he represented Wayne County in the State Legislature, during which time he influenced the St. The next year, he was elected county surveyor, a position he held until the Civil War broke out. Raised in Tennessee, he moved to the area in 1857 and purchased 225 acres of land. Leeper, who would become one of the most prominent men of Wayne County. One of the first residents in the area was Captain William T. Black River in Missouri courtesy Trip Advisor
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