SPLCo Commissary Exterior

The Southern Pine Lumber Co. store, the express office, post office and drug store at Diboll, Texas, November 1907. The company store was the geographic and social center of the community. According to the January 18, 1908 American Lumberman, the general store was on the ground floor, a size of 36x66 feet. An adjacent room of the same size was used for storage. The second floor, 66x72 feet, was used for furniture and men's furnishing goods. The drug store was 30x50 feet in size. Manager W. P. Rutland and twelve others employed the store.