This information was found in the vertical files of the Genealogy Department of the Longview Public Library.

THE AVINGER CITIZEN
Special Historical Edition
June 18, 1954

F. A. McKENZIE Manufacturing Company
1918-1954

F.A. McKenzie, Sr., lumber yard and sawmill located five miles southeast of Avinger.

F.A. McKenzie Sr., originally from Minnesota, came to Avinger from Old Mexico in Feb., 1918, as a mining prop contractor. In 1922 he purchased a sawmill and remained in the lumber business until his death, Nov. 15, 1932.

Fred A. McKenzie grew timber as a crop on a tree farm located on Farm Highway 729 in the Mimm's Chapel community.

F.A. McKenzie, Jr., upon being discharged from the Navy in 1946, founded F.A. McKenzie Manufacturing Company, a wood products business promarily engaged in the process of converting sawmill waste into a marketable product.
Principal Item Manufactured: Woven Picket Fence.

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A Post-World War II Business
"Po-Boyed" Along by Two Ex-GIs

Gates Tires - Humble Gasoline
Sporting Goods and Auto Accessories

A & P HOME & AUTO SUPPLY

Phone 2312 Edmond Aycock Ralph Poole Avinger, Texas

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YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY

Top Quality Groceries
Hi Grade Dairy and Meat Products

A & P HOME GROCERY

Phone 2311 Mrs. Aline Hooten, Manager Avinger, Texas.

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J.C. COOPER

Avinger, Texas