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Poplar Bluff Lumber and Manufacturing Company
Industrial
1880s
c. 1883
Southern portion of the city
Verbatim Passage from Source
"In the summer of 1883 the Company purchased 16 acres of land in the southern portion of the city for which they paid the sum of $1,500 in cash. Upon this ground they at once erected a number of two-story frame buildings for the use of their employees"
— Source: A VIEW OF A GROWING TOWN OR POPLAR BLUFF AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND AS IT WILL BE (referenced c. 1883)
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A large lumber manufacturing plant and saw mill facility with employee housing.
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