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Sawmill along Willow Creek in the 1930s. Source: Crook County Historical Society
Stand 7 in Section 20, along Willow Creek
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Management History
The Foley Butte Block has been managed for commercial timber production since the early 1900s, when it was
part of the Alexander-Yawkey Timber Company, one of three major forest products companies to make Crook
County and Prineville the ponderosa pine capital of the world. In the 1930s, Alexander-Yawkey made the deci-
sion to build several small sawmills in the woods in order to facilitate year-round operations. One of the sites
that had mill-worker housing was along Willow Creek, in the western section of the property.
