Poitevent & Favre Lumber Co.

36" gauge, converted to standard gauge in 1886

Named East Louisiana RR

Headquarters: Pearlington, MS

Mill Location: Pearlington, MS (Hancock County)

Mill Capacity: 150,000 ft/day in 1910

Years of Operation: 1867-ca.1907

Miles Operated: 5 miles in 1886

Locomotives Owned

Equipment:

 

 

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History by Gil Hoffman:

The firmof Poitevent & Favre was composed of W. J. Poitevent and Joseph A. Favre. At Pearlington, three sawmills were operated together with a shipyard and a fleet of steamers and schooners in the Caribbean lumber trade. The first of these mills was built in 1867. Around 1880 large tracts of timber land were bought by the company in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. 

The mills at Pearlington cut their last log about 1907. In December 1912, Poitevent & Favre sold their holdings at Pearlington to the H. Weston Lumber Company, of Logtown, Hancock County. This sale included 5,500 acres of timber, sawmill, planer, dry kilns and marine equipment. Poitevent & Favre then moved to Mandeville, Louisiana, where they built a new mill that was placed in operation in 1913.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narrow gauge ROSTER by Gil Hoffman: 

 

 

Road No.

 

Type

 

Builder

 

C.N.

 

Date

 

Cyls.

 

Dri. Dia.

 

Engine

Wt.

 

Previous Ownership

 

Disposition

 

1

 

0-4-2T

 

Porter

 

522

 

10/1882

 

9x14

 

36

 

17000

 

New. Named Abita.

 

For sale 1/1886.

Unknown owners.

W. B. Seymour, Hattiesburg, MS, (dealer),

by 2/1909.

 

2

 

No Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secondhand.

In service by 9/1886.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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