Williams Industries, Inc. history

The post office was established on October 13, 1869 before the plat was submitted.

The first school was built in 1870 about a mile south of town.

To counter this trend, residents incorporated in 1931 to establish the Town of Williams Creek.

The brothers began building pipelines internationally.1943.

Williams merged with MAPCO, whose assets happened to include a pipeline that Williams built in 1960, during the heyday of its construction business.

A school reorganization of Blairsburg, Kamrar, and Williams sent the high school students to Blairsburg in 1963, and five years later the junior high students were transferred there, too.

As a conglomerate with businesses ranging from fertilizer and steel to retail stores and commercial real estate development, Williams turned its full focus back to energy and pipelines.1983.

The purchase of Northwest Energy Company was the beginning of the company’s nationwide system of interstate natural gas pipelines.1985.

The WilTel venture began, playing a foundational role in today’s digital world by using retired-from-service pipelines as conduit for fragile fiber-optic cable.1995.

The acquisition of Transco Energy Company expanded Williams’ natural gas transportation system to the East Coast and established the company as one of the nation’s largest-volume transporters of natural gas, now delivering about half of the natural gas consumed in New York City.1998.

The company narrowed its focus back to energy, exited the telecommunications business, and acquired Barrett Resources, adding significant natural gas reserves, primarily in the western United States.2003.

Williams began investing to grow its business in the Marcellus producing area of the United States Northeast. It also continued to invest in expanding its Transco interstate natural gas pipeline system – the nation’s largest, and fastest-growing – to create access to the “best markets” to the north and south of the Marcellus and Utica supply areas.2014.

Williams placed Transco’s “Big Five” expansion projects into service, increasing capacity on the pipeline by 25%.2017.