The Beebe River Mill, in Campton, was built in 1917, to harvest the timber in the Squam and Sandwich ranges. It was operated by the Woodstock Lumber Company and Parker Young Company. A whole town was built, with houses for the workers, a company store, a boarding house, a movie theatre, and, of course, a new sawmill. The photo above shows one of the mill buildings in about 1926, when the mill complex had been bought by The Draper Mills Corporation, to be used for the production of bobbins for Draper's textile mills and for sale to other textile companies. While it was owned and operated by the Parker Young Company, it was fully integrated with the Lincoln complex, with raw materials, finished goods, scrap, and supplies moving back and forth on the East Branch and Lincoln Railroads, also fully owned by Parker Young Co. and operating on the Boston and Maine Railroad track. In addition, an extensive logging railroad operated from the Beebe River Mill into the surrounding forests to supply the mill.

Image: mill buildings circa 1926.