Levingston Shipbuilding Company

During World War II Levingston Shipbuilding Company built ships for the United States Naval Station Orange also on the Sabine River.

George Levingston also purchased major shares of Joseph Weaver and Son Shipyard, also on the Sabine River.

Notable ships: At the site of Levingston Shipbuilding Company is a historical marker that reads:[3] In 1859, three brothers, Samuel, David and John Levingston, arrived in Orange from Ireland and purchased an existing shipyard, where they built wooden ships for more than thirty years.

Levingston Shipbuilding delivered its first vessel for the war effort, a 530-ton steel tugboat named Tuscarora on December 13, 1941.

Levingston Shipbuilding was the only U.S. builder of all five types of offshore drilling rigs until it ceased operations in 1985.