"At the Hi-Lo Cafe, one of the remaining independent restaurants in Weed, a reporter from ABC affiliate KRCR-TV spoke about the fallout with a server named Bonnie Dew. "It's going to have a big impact on the town," Dew told the news station. "The mill is a big part of the town and lots of guys that work there come in here for lunch and breakfast and meetings, so it's going to impact the town greatly.""
"Weed, a former Union soldier, made his way to the West in the late 1860s, first landing in Truckee and then establishing businesses in the forested regions north of Lake Tahoe. Weed paid $400 for 280 acres near the base of Mount Shasta and, with the founding of the mill, turned Weed into a company town, providing housing and a mercantile."
Roseburg Forest Products closed the Weed lumber mill abruptly, leaving the Northern California town of Weed in shock and disarray. The mill most recently produced wood veneers and structural panels. The town grew around the mill after Abner Weed founded the Weed Lumber Mill in 1897, buying land near Mount Shasta and creating housing and a mercantile. Long Bell Lumber purchased the company in 1922, prompting thousands of Black workers to migrate west for higher wages, sometimes with train fare paid by the company. In September 2022 the Mill Fire destroyed Lincoln Heights; Cal Fire determined the mill caused the fire, though the mill continued operating afterward.
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