Businesses & Buildings
The community had a small company store. The Company paid workers in script money which was only redeemable at the company store. Schooners brought many groceries such as hay , oats, sugar, flour, beef, pork, molasses, and other necessities and the company store was well stocked in dry goods and other groceries. The beef and pork would come in chucks, in 300 pound barrels and the molasses would come in puncheons (large barrels) and the people would go to the store and pour it in their own jars of various sizes. Large Schooners would bring enough groceries in the summer and fall to last all winter. In 1920, Mr. Comer decided to set up a store in Horwood South, that took money, employees had a shortage of cash so Mr. Comer then was forced to take script money. The company refused to redeem the script money for cash, therefore Mr. Comer took the company to court and the judge ordered the company to exchange the script money for cash. Mr. Comerthen closed his store and left Horwood, no one knows why.
The community had a small ice house that kept large blocks of ice buried in sawdust to keep ice from thawing, which would be used by the company for business and personal use during the summer months. They also had an oil shed that stored several drums of kerosene for consumer use. Several drums of different kinds of oils and lubricants were also stored for many uses at the mill to maintain and lubricate the machinery. They also had a post office, which was only way to communicate with other people using letters, therefore there had to be a post office.
They also owned a machine shop that contained all the modern amenities of the time on site Such as:
1. Hearths (old fire places, usually brick)
2. Anvils (a basic tool, a block with a hard surface on which
another object is struck) and Bellows (a device for delivering pressurized air
in a controlled quantity to a controlled location) for the millwrights
(craftsman), machinists, and blacksmiths so they could make and shape iron and
steel to be used in the operation of the
mill.
3. Planers
4. A clapboard machine
5. Shingle machines
6. Lathe machines
7. Re-saws
8. Trimmers
9. Edging machines
10. Jack-ups (used to haul logs from the boom of the mater up to the mill)
11. Carriage for carrying the logs so that the logs could be trimmed as required and the lumber cut into various thickness.
The community had a small ice house that kept large blocks of ice buried in sawdust to keep ice from thawing, which would be used by the company for business and personal use during the summer months. They also had an oil shed that stored several drums of kerosene for consumer use. Several drums of different kinds of oils and lubricants were also stored for many uses at the mill to maintain and lubricate the machinery. They also had a post office, which was only way to communicate with other people using letters, therefore there had to be a post office.
They also owned a machine shop that contained all the modern amenities of the time on site Such as:
1. Hearths (old fire places, usually brick)
2. Anvils (a basic tool, a block with a hard surface on which
another object is struck) and Bellows (a device for delivering pressurized air
in a controlled quantity to a controlled location) for the millwrights
(craftsman), machinists, and blacksmiths so they could make and shape iron and
steel to be used in the operation of the
mill.
3. Planers
4. A clapboard machine
5. Shingle machines
6. Lathe machines
7. Re-saws
8. Trimmers
9. Edging machines
10. Jack-ups (used to haul logs from the boom of the mater up to the mill)
11. Carriage for carrying the logs so that the logs could be trimmed as required and the lumber cut into various thickness.