By the mid-1880s, Isaac Enochs had brought two of his brothers, James Luther and Philip Henry, into the family lumber business and expanded their operations by purchasing timberland and constructing a sawmill between the towns of McComb and Magnolia in Pike County.
The Philip Enochs home is on the National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, Mississippi.
[1] In 1913, a ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission resulted in dissolution of the Enochs brothers partnership so as to separate their lumber business from their railroad enterprises.
[2] Near Fernwood, the Enochs began farming and raised cattle and hogs on their cutover land to promote settlement.
In the 1930s, the Enochs family established other wood product companies which became Fernwood Industries, with specialization in pressure treated timber.