Springdale

[ community, school site & post office established 26 May 1914 - discontinued 30 Sept 1926 moved to Perry ]

Taylor County Lumber Company was located here.

T. Nola entered into business at Springdale.

H. C. Walker lived on a farm just south of the Fenholloway River, and he reared his family in a buidling that had once been the Springdale School house.

Edgar Courtney operated a plantation northwest of Perry, a part of which is currently within the city limits of Perry. Included in the operation was the famous Courtney grist mill which was located where Springdale later existed.

From Memoirs of an Octogenarian, by Sam Register - Sam remembers The Taylor County Lumber Company mill and town was located on the right hand side of US Hwy 98 as one leaves Perry going west. Its location was about half way between Perry and the Rock Creek mill and town site, as heretofore discussed. The town and mill site was known  as Springdale, and I remember Springdale as one of the neatest and most attractive company towns I've known, with its multi-colored dwellings and other buildings, reminding one viewing from a distance of "doll houses."  The Taylor County Lumber Company mill burned to the ground in 1928 give or take a year.

Henry McHargue was an engineer on the log train that carried logs into the mill of the Taylor County Lumber Company at Springdale. On the night of Sept 18, 1925 the whole mill was destroyed by fire, including the final load of logs which he had brought in late the afternoon before. The total population of the town was left jobless. Later he worked for Weaver-Loughridge Lumber Company with a move to Pine Camp in the northwest section of the county.