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After the Civil War, the W. W. Carre' Company produced lumber at the old plant. In 1870, a new mill was built a short distance from the old one. In 1874, the W. W. Carre' company dissolved with Henry Weston become the owner.
In 1888, the H. Weston Lumber Company was chartered with Mr. Henry Weston as President. HJis six sons, Asa Sidney, Horatio Stephen II, David Coney, John Henry, David Robert and Abner Coburn, and Mr. J. S. Otis assisted in the business.
Mr. Roy Baxter Sr. and Mr. Lamar Otis were employed in the H. Weston Lumber Company offices while in their teens and attending school.
Roy Baxter, Sr. moved to Logtown in 188 9, when he was 7 years old, and began working in the planing mill at age 14. His business training in New Orleans enabled him to work his way up to Sales Manager.
Lamar Otis, son of J. S. Otis and grandson of Hery Carre' went to Milsaps College in Jackson for a short time, then attended Soule' Business College in New Orleans. In an era predating the use of computers, Mr. Otis proved a valuable asset to the company because of his extraordinary mathematical ability.
Both men held their position until the close of the lumber company. Mr. Baxter went into the sawmill business for himself, retiring in 194333. Mr. Otis began a towing business, owning the tug boats "BETTYE" and "J.S. OTIS''. Later he was elected Circuit Clerk of Hancock County and held that office for 13 years until his death in 1972.
THE SEA COAST ECHO, dated October 31,	1914,	gave front -
page coverage to the burning of Weston Mill Number One. Also completely destroyed by the fire at a nearby dock were the steamboat "PELICAN' and the tugboat "PALO PINTO".
The mills were in operation for almost one hundred years.
The H. Weston Lumber Company was numbered among the largest lumber exporting firms in the south. The company owned and operated two large, modern sawmills, employing 1,2000 men at the peak of production. They owned about twenty barges, schooners, steamboats and tugs, in addition to fifty miles or more of standard railroad equipped with modern logging machinery, and an immense acreage of fine timberland -everything necessary for a large, modern lumber manufacturing business.
Mr. Haoratio S. Weston, son of Henry Weston, was instrumental in making the H. Weston Lumber Company the first in Mississippi to begin the practice of forestry. The company participated in organized forestry work and forest fire prevention. Mr. Weston was largely responsible for the