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AKA: McCormick Lumber Company, Port Gamble Mill, Port Gamble, WA
Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - factories; built works _ industrial buildings - processing plant
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1853
Charles McCormick--a Portland, OR-based lumberman--purchased the Port Gamble Mill along with the Puget Mill Company facility in Port Ludlow, WA, as well as the company town of Port Gamble, WA, for $15 million on 10/16/1925. The process of upgrading the mills--compounded by the lack of credit available during the Depression--gradually drained McCormick's capital, and he ended up in bankruptcy by 1938, whereupon Puget Mill retained ownership of its former assets.
Puget Mill Company began operations here in 1853, and upgraded and enlarged its facility in Port Gamble in 1858. This mill was hampered by its remote location, far from existing railroad lines.
PCAD id: 14230
