Well, I believe the Cummer Co. may have started in Ontario. They were for sure in Michigan (Cadillac) and in the Jax area. Actually, I believe they had several offices throughout FL. At one time, I had at least 4 relatives (all Phillips') working there. They all lived in a town called Milldale. I have a Wedding Announcement posted in the Bios section of the Duval pages here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Fl/DuvalBios?read=2 Here's a quote from it regarding Milldale: "There was no reception at the bride¹s home, because of the very long distance out to Milldale, the pretty little Cummer¹s mill settlement, where all of the participants live." This was from 1905 I also did a search on the internet once and the Cummer name came up a lot. They talk about Cummer closing in Cadillac MI but I couldn't find any info on what happened in FL. Here's some of the info I found (this all came from different websites).... HAMILTON, ONTARIO The Cummers owned houses in Waterdown CADILLAC, MI The first sawmill was built by a Mr. Yale in the fall of 1871, the site being nearly the same as that now occupied by what is designated as Cobbs and Mitchell's little mill. It would be impossible to give in detail the vast lumbering operations that have been built up and still largely sustain the thriving city by the lake. For nearly thirty-two years, summer and winter, and many times day and night, has the work gone on. Some idea may be formed of the vast proportions of this business from a present description of some of the mills. For years the Cummer interest ran two mills, cutting from two hundred thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber per day. Two years ago one of these mills ceased doing business, for the reason that the pine timber had become exhausted. The other mill runs on hardwood and hemlock, cutting about sixty thousand feet of the former or one hundred and thirty feet of the latter per day. PASCO CO, FL Most of the communities of the 1880's and 1890's disappeared when the virgin pine forests were cut down or after the "great freeze" of 1895, which severely damaged the citrus industry in the area. Tobacco became a principal crop for a period of around twenty years following the "great freeze". The pine lumber and turpentine industries developed more slowly and after 1923, centered around the Cummer Company in Lacoochee, a major employer in the area until the 1960's. Both pine and cypress are still being logged in Pasco County. Sue Ann >In a message dated 3/27/99 10:56:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, sasanders@wisc- >dtp.com writes: > ><< Cummer Lumber Company >> >I just started researching this project and would like to know about the >Cummer Lumber Co. Where was it located ? >Betty -------------------------------------------------------------- Sue Ann Sanders Duval Co, FL GenWeb Coordinator sasanders@wisc-dtp.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~flduval Rootsweb Sponsor SANDERS, PHILLIPS, COPELAND, WALL --------------------------------------------------------------