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Boyden and Wyman Lumber Company

Industrial
1880s
c. 1882
Neelyville
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"In 1882, the Boyden and Wyman Lumber Company began operating in the town. A fire nearly destroyed Neelyville in 1900. During that year, the Boyden and Wyman company reorganized as the Star Ranch & Land Company and purchased approximately twenty thousand acres in the vicinity of Neelyville."

— Source: Butler County, Missouri Historical and Architectural Survey (referenced c. 1882)

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The Boyden and Wyman Lumber Company began operating in Neelyville in 1882.

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