Meadow River Lumber Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Meadow River Lumber Company, which operated in Rainelle, West Virginia from 1906 to 1975, was the largest hardwood sawmill in the world. It had three 9 feet (2.7 m) bandsaws under one roof. In 1928, during peak production, its 500 employees produced 31 million board feet (73 million cubic meters) of lumber, cutting 3,000 acres (12 km2) of virgin timber a year.
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