Between 1890 and 1930, large lumber companies moved into southwest Louisiana to harvest Longleaf Pine, and after 1930 most ended logging operations, leaving thousands of acres of pine stumps. In 1919, W. Burns Logan, Sr., a chemical engineer, arrived in DeQuincy to explore processing those stumps into pine oil, turpentine, and rosin. After finding an abundant supply of high quality stumps, he established the Acme Products Company. The Acme plant stood on 26 acres at the southeast intersection of Highways 12 and 27. Newport Industries purchased the plant in 1928, and it soon employed as many as 450 men. Independent contractors known as “stumpers” supplied the raw materials by dynamiting the stumps from the ground and transporting them to the plant for processing. The plant had a tremendous economic impact on the area, but by 1957 the supply of stumps had dwindled and the DeQuincy plant closed.