Lumber Milling

Williamsport was incorporated as a borough on March 1, 1806, and as a city on January 15, 1866. The city is the original home of Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 as a three-team league. The Little League World Series complex is currently based in South Williamsport and the Series itself is held in August.

In the late 1800s Williamsport was known as "The Lumber Capital of the World" because of its thriving lumber industry. It also was the birthplace of the national newspaper Grit in 1882. Williamsport once had more millionaires per-capita than anywhere in the world. The area's local high school, the Williamsport Area High School, uses The Millionaires as its mascot.

Williamsport is well-known for the Lycoming aircraft engines which is a division of Avco Corporation and a subsidiary of Textron. Brodart, a library supplies company, is also based in Williamsport. Shop-Vac is headquartered in the Newberry section of Williamsport and manufactures wet/dry vacuums and accessories for consumer, industrial, commercial and contractor uses. Overhead Garage Door is also located in Newberry. Bethlehem Wire Rope,[12] a 46-acre (190,000 m2) manufacturing complex in Williamsport, with over 620,000 square feet (58,000 m2) under roof, is the single largest wire rope manufacturing facility in North America.

We model the Williamsport Lumber Company in recognition of the importance of this industry to Pennsylvania and the United States over a century ago.

Photo of the track siding where logs arrive from the Yeagertown Timber farm and where finished lumber products depart for the Container Port in Philadelphia and various industries.:

Freshly cut logs are fed into the rough sawing plant.

Rough sawn lumber is then brought into the lumber finishing and drying faciity

Finished lumber is railed to the Container Port for export.

Some logs are treated with creosote and delivered to the Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) pole depot in Frackville.