The company town of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, which built it starting around 1888. Around 1900 its mill was the largest sawmill in the country, able to cut 75 million board feet a year, and Grandin grew to 2,500 to 3,000 people. The timber ran out, the mill closed in 1910, and much of it, houses included, moved to West Eminence. Twenty-nine of the company’s buildings from 1888 to 1909 and Toliver Pond were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, six of them as the Sixth Street Historic District. About 226 people live in Grandin today.
- Where
- Grandin, MO
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