Fullerton Mill Historic Site

Between 1907 and 1927, this was the largest pine sawmill west of the Mississippi — not just a mill, but a company town of five thousand people with electricity, hospitals, theaters, and schools. The town was called Fullerton. When the timber played out, the entire operation shut down and the town emptied. Not gradually. The thing that happens to logging towns happened here: the resource ended, the paychecks stopped, and people left. What remains are foundations and industrial ruins you can walk through on a 1.6-mile self-guided trail, interpreted by QR codes that explain what stood where. The National Register recognized the site in 1986, which means the federal government considers these ruins worth protecting — a company town that burned bright for two decades and left behind brick and concrete evidence that five thousand people built lives here, then had to go somewhere else when the pines ran out.