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Graves Lumber history
Graves Lumber company history timeline
Graves Brothers Company began in 1895 as Graves Lumber Company, a logging business in Geneva, Alabama started by brothers James Edwin Graves, Jr. and Walter Graves.
Since no town existed in Hosford in 1906, James and Walter had to build one.
In 1908, Harvey L. Graves moved to Akron and bought the Goehring Manufacturing Company.
He said he never enjoyed another summer as much as that one.In 1919, the company purchased land in what is now Indian River County under the name Sebastian Land Company.
Ole Ninespot was last seen on exhibition on the west side of United States 19 near Lebanon, FL. In the late 1920's, James Richard 'Rip' Graves came to work for his father and Uncle Walter in the family business.
These crops were sold in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago under the brand name SELCO (an acronym for Sebastian Land Company). The first citrus groves were planted in 1921.
James Edwin's son, James Richard 'Rip' Graves, worked in the commissary the summer following his freshman year at the University of Florida in 1926.
Shortly thereafter, the Carrabelle mill and timber contracts were sold to the W.B. Harbeson Company of Pensacola for $1,600,000 and the main activities of Graves Brothers Company were moved to Wabasso, FL (Indian River County), where it bought its first packinghouse in 1928.
In 1930, the company built a new packinghouse at the intersection of United States 1 and C.R. 510 where it remains today.
In the early 1930's, due to the Great Depression, Rip had to leave the company and work for the Sinclair Oil Company.
In the early 1930’s, Brown-Graves Company acquired patents on the “Bee-Gee Dubl-Tite Window”, and began window production along with the “Bee Gee Door”.
Rip returned to the company upon the death of his uncle, Walter Graves, in 1937.
On June 4, 1945, Harold E. Graves purchased all of the Brown family interest in the company, and his sons joined the company as the third generation family members.
During Rip's leadership, many changes and innovations took place in the citrus industry, including the invention of orange concentrate in 1949.
The Bee Gee Window Division was subsequently sold in 1958 to a Pittsburgh millwork jobber.
In order to compete with the cash and carry rage, in 1965 the Company started Buy-Rite Lumber Company on the old Beaver Lumber Company property in Copley, Ohio.
H. E. Graves, Jr.’s son, Keith Graves, joined the company as the fourth generation family member in 1971.
Richard and his nephew, Jeffrey Edwin Bass (fourth generation), began working together in 1991.
In 1999 Keith Graves and his siblings purchased all of the interest in the company from other family members.
In the year 2000, the company changed its name to Graves Lumber Co.
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