A New Sawmill for the Tacoma Addition
A local mill is relocating to expand operations near the railroad bridge, signaling a boost in industrial employment.
Aberdeen will soon have a new industry which will give employment to about fifty men all the year around—the shingle and sawmill of Samuel Sears, which will soon be removed from the mouth of the Little Hoquiam river to a site on block one of Tacoma addition, which is at the point just below the railroad bridge. B. F. Doty has the contract for driving the piles on the site and will remove the mills as soon as the site is prepared, which will be in about a week. The shinglemill will have a capacity of 225,000 per day and the sawmill will turn out about 15,000 feet per diem.
“Aberdeen will soon have a new industry which will give employment to about fifty men all the year around.”
This move highlights the era when Aberdeen's economy was physically reshaped by the relocation of mills to prime riverside and railroad-adjacent real estate. Today, the 'Tacoma Addition' remains a residential and industrial pocket that still bears the marks of this early, intensive sawmill development.
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