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Building History

This $7 million sawmill complex was located at an altitude of 7,500 feet on White Mountain Apache Reservation lands with large stands of pine trees. Flagstaff businessman, Thomas E. Pollock (1868-1938) commissioned the Stockton, CA, firm, The Davis-Heller-Pearce Company, to design and construct 42 different buildings for his Apache Lumber Company's manufacturing facility. Work here occurred in 1916; a 1923 history indicated that: "It was necessary to send hundreds of men of all crafts from San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento and Stockton, to do the work." (See History of San Joaquin County, California, [Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1923], p. 1431; viewed on line atAccessed 10/24/2011.) Pollock sold out in the early 1920s to two Louisiana lumbermen, W.M. Cady and James G. McNary, who encouraged 700 African-American workers to move to the high country of AZ. The town of Cooley later became known as "McNary,"

Demolition

The sawmill burned in 1979.

PCAD id: 17170