Beautifully engraved RARE certificate from the Land and Lumber Company of North Carolina issued in 1873. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of lumberjacks cutting up trees in a forest. This item is hand signed by the Company's President ( F. Panson ) and Secretary and is over 130 years old. This is the first time we have had this certificate for sale.
Certificate Vignette The Land and Lumber Company of North Carolina started in Elizabeth City in the years following the Civil War. The Land and Lumber Company went out of business in 1873, and their plant along the river was taken over by the planing mill of Conroe, Bush, and Lippencott.