We begin the series with the town of Aldridge, a so-called ghost sawmill town, over in Jasper County. It was one of many sawmills that helped get the East Texas lumber business on the map.

The Aldridge Sawmill is one of the few remaining relics of the company town that hundreds made their home in the early 20th century. Today, the sawmill is abandoned in the Angelina National Forest, ...

Aldridge is perhaps the most isolated and desolate of East ... Nearly a century ago, the old ruins were the backbone of a sawmill town whose fortunes rose and fell with the vast virgin pinelands of ...