Grogan Cochran Lumber Company was a lumber company founded in 1917 by George and Will Grogan at Grand Lake Switch, Texas.
In 1927, the company merged with the Lone Star Lumber Company in Magnolia, Texas. The company operated until 1960. [1]
The Heritage Museum of Montgomery County, Texas is located in a building known as the Grogan-Cochran house.
Much of the area where the company cut down and sold trees has now become the planned community of The Woodlands, Texas.
Cochran County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,547. The county seat is Morton. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1924. It is named for Robert E. Cochran, a defender of the Alamo.
Morton is a city in and the county seat of Cochran County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,690. This represented a 15.8% population decline since the 2010 Census.
The Woodlands is a special-purpose district and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. The Woodlands is primarily located in Montgomery County, with portions extending into Harris County. The Woodlands is governed by The Woodlands Township, an organization that provides municipal services and is administered by an elected board of directors. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the township had a population of 114,436 people.
Claire Patricia Grogan, known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer. She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images, as well as for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf as the first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski.
Albert Leslie Cochran was an American homeless man, peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman, and outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless. Cochran was known in Austin as Leslie.
Muscogee is a ghost town located twenty miles northwest of Pensacola, Florida, United States, in Escambia County, along the Perdido River. Named after the Muscogee Lumber Company, formed by Georgia lumber men, the town was founded in 1857 by a group of lumbermen to harvest timber from the surrounding pine forests. They and the following company clearcut the timber, and once the forests were gone, lumbering ended in this area.
Wiergate is a small unincorporated community in Newton County, Texas, United States. It is in the far eastern part of the state lies approximately 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Beaumont near State Highways 63 and 87. Its population today hovers at approximately 450.
Village Mills is an unincorporated community in north central Hardin County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Slide is an unincorporated community in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 44 in 2000. The community is part of the Lubbock metropolitan area.
Tamina is an unincorporated community in southern Montgomery County, Texas, United States.
The forests in the U.S. state of Texas have been an important resource since its earliest days and have played a major role in the state's history. The vast woodlands of the region, home to many varieties of wildlife before Europeans first showed up, provided economic opportunities for early settlers. They continue to play an important role economically and environmentally in the state.
Helmic is a rural community in Trinity County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 86 in 2000. It is located within the Huntsville, Texas micropolitan area.
Grogan's Mill is a village of The Woodlands, a planned community in Texas.
Stapp is an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located approximately eight miles south of Heavener on US Route 59.
Milo-Grogan is a neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The neighborhood was settled as the separate communities of Milo and Grogan in the late 1870s. Large-scale industrial development fueled the neighborhood's growth until the 1980s, when the last factories closed. The community has received urban renewal efforts in recent years fueled by the Columbus Department of Development and Milo-Grogan Area Commission.
Ten Mile, also known as Tenmile, is an unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi, United States, located approximately 1.15 mi (1.85 km) south of Perkinston. Ten Mile is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area. The main period of significance was between 1904 and 1923.
Grogan is an extinct town in southern Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
Grogan’s Point is an estate neighborhood and golf course community in the Village of Grogan’s Mill of The Woodlands, a planned community in Texas.
Cochran is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 116 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
Heritage Museum of Montgomery County is a history museum in Montgomery County, Texas, a mostly rural county northeast of Houston.