Boggy Mill Company Site

The Boggy Mill Company incorporated in August 1908, and its mill occupied 40 acres on the east side of Boggy Bayou, where access to forest and waterways made it an ideal location. The company attracted settlers for lumber industry work such as logging, turpentine, and shingle-getting, which was rough, difficult, and dangerous. In November 1908, the flywheel of the sawmill’s largest engine gave way, and a piece struck engineer George Bostick, causing his death. That same month, the Pensacola News Journal reported that the company was running its plant full time and cutting about 21,000 board feet per day, while Boggy was growing quickly with new buildings, stores, mills, turpentine stills, and arriving families. In 1912, J. P. Rawls bought the mill site at public auction along with 6,000 additional acres, and he later sold it to the Mutual Land and Lumber Co., owned by developer R. E. L. McCaskill.

Niceville, Florida · United States