Rex Lumber - Graceville

About Rex Lumber - Graceville

Rex Lumber's own site presents the Graceville operation as the place the company began. Its history page states that W. D. McRae established Rex Lumber Company in Graceville in 1926, that the mill started out as a cypress sawmill and later became an oak flooring manufacturer, and that it ran continuously apart from a brief period during the Second World War. The same page says the McRae family sold the company in 1980, to Southwest Forest Industries, which became Stone Container and eventually U. S. Forest Industries, then bought the Graceville mill back at a bankruptcy auction in 2001 after what the company calls a 20-year intermission and restarted it as Rex Lumber, LLC, with successful operations beginning in March 2003. The site describes the site as completely redesigned and modernized into a high volume Southern Yellow Pine sawmill, and says Rex Lumber uses state-of-the-art equipment to transform harvested timber into southern yellow pine lumber with almost no waste. The company describes itself as a fourth-generation, family-owned lumber manufacturer operating four mills in Florida, Mississippi and Alabama, and states that the McRae family also owns Apalachee Pole Company, Woodlands Timber, Rex Transportation and over 16,000 acres of timber land in Florida, Alabama and Georgia. Graceville is listed on the site as the corporate office as well as a mill, and the company's Woodlands Timber page names a Graceville procurement manager, a senior procurement forester and a procurement forester, so timber buying is staffed from this location; the site publishes no minimum tract size and no buying terms. The mill is recorded in the Primary Forest Products Network directory of the Southern Group of State Foresters as a softwood sawmill in Jackson County. As described on rex-lumber.com, read 23 September 2026.

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