[3] The mill served logging operations around Antelope Creek, and around it grew a town of the same name, with two saloons, a community hall, a general store, a post office, and machine and blacksmith shops.
[3] Nothing remains of it today apart from a giant sawdust pile, some brick mill foundations, a cemetery located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the town proper, and thousands of square nails, bolts, and railroad spikes.
[7][4][3] It was first built as a steam mill in 1876/1877, having 2 circular saws which could nominally cut 30000 board-feet per day, and operated until it burned down in 1891.
[4] At the turn of the century, mill hands would "ride the flume" on wooden boards for 35 miles between Lyonsville and Red Bluff.
[3] Sawdust was dumped from the mill at the foot of Antelope Creek and would eventually become a pile several hundred feet deep.