Hammond Lumber Company

[1] Eureka and Klamath River Railroad was chartered in 1893 to connect the Samoa, CA sawmill and associated worker housing facilities to the city of Arcata and timberlands near the Mad River.

The Samoa sawmill was the largest in Humboldt County when purchased by Andrew B. Hammond in 1900.

[4] Hammond Lumber Company railroads brought logs and lumber to Samoa from company outposts on the Little River and Big Lagoon until the railway trestles were destroyed by wildfire in 1945.

[5] After Georgia-Pacific was ordered to break up due to a ruling with the Federal Trade Commission, it became incorporated as Louisiana Pacific in 1973.

L-P was headed by Harry Merlo and would be based out of Portland, OR for the next 33 years, moving to Nashville in 2004.