https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/034684https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/034684.jpgLast Mill of the Hoffman Lumber Company, Columbia, South CarolinaSawmills--South Carolina--Columbia.Logging and Lumbering--Scenes and Views.Mills and mill-work--South Carolina--Columbia.'Last mill of the Hoffman Lumber Company in Columbia, South Carolina, which was a modern electrically driven mill 7' Right Hand Sinker & Davis Hooiser Band Mill on which they ran 11" x 14 Guage saw. This mill with timber was sold as of May 11 1945 to the Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co., of Knoxville, Tennessee. The Hoffman Brothers of course were the inventors of the first successful band mill with main offices at Ft. Wayne, Indiana'.West Virginia History OnView