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This lumber mill was built by the U.S. Army Signal Corps to provide spruce timber to be used in the construction of airplanes during World War I. It was completed too late (only 70% was done on Armistice Day, 11/11/1918) to contribute any lumber for the war effort. It cost approximately $750,000 to build. Another Spruce Products Division mill was planned to be built at Lake Pleasant, WA.

The Spruce Production Division Mill in 1918 was located at the mouth of Ennis Creek along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in Port Angeles, WA.

When Rayonier Incorporated closed this mill in 1997, government ecologists moved in to test the environmental quality of the site. In 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that the Rayonier Mill did not belong on its Toxic Superfund remediation list, preferring to allow the State of Washington's Department of Ecology to work with the local Lower Elwha Tribe to supervise clean-up. Clean-up was on-going in 2007.

PCAD id: 9391