Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jessica Johnson travels to Coushatta, Louisiana to visit Almond Brothers Lumber Company. For five generations, the Almond family has milled southern yellow pine in the town of Coushatta, but the tradition actually started a generation before that. Ardis Almond, now retired, tells the story of his great-great grandfather, Green Almond, serving the Confederate Army in the 14th North Carolina before losing an arm on the same day Stonewall Jackson lost his at Chancellorsville. A farmer, the one-armed Almond now had to find a new way of living after the injury. He decided to give the sawmill business a try. The first Almond sawmill was on a mountainside near the Pee Dee River in North Carolina. Green’s son, Richard Thomas Jackson Almond (named for Stonewall), learned the business from his dad and followed the gold rush to Jefferson, South Carolina where he cut timbers for the mine and lumber for the boom town.

Featured Story: “Their Own Way”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Southern Style Logging, LLC and Bayou Country Trucking, LLC
Location: Star City, Arkansas
SLT Issue: September 2018

Check out other featured articles in the September 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s September 2018 issue features Philadelphia, Mississippi’s Todd Gray Logging, Star City, Arkansas’ Southern Style Logging, LLC and Bayou Country Trucking, LLC, Coushatta, Louisiana’s Almond Brothers Lumber Company, and Brodnax, Virginia’s RS Bottoms Logging. A special section highlights the latest in Chippers & Grinders. An article previews the upcoming 2018 Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show, to be held September 21-22 in Starkville, Mississippi. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.