Owners: Taylor & Stephanie Allen
2049 Shannon Blvd, Louisville, GA 30434

www.thesouthernsawmill.com

Products and services you offer? We offer milled lumber such as flooring, ceilings and paneling for walls. We are also the first legal deadhead loggers in the State of Georgia to recover logs out of the rivers. We mill these logs into flooring, ceiling and paneling. We make custom mantles with these logs and occasionally make tables or rare pieces that a customer may ask for.   Interesting fact about your business? The most interesting fact is most people don't know we are "legally" permitted to recover logs out of the river.  Challenges you face? We face the challenge of advertising and getting our name out there. We want to grow in many of the surrounding counties and afar. We also face the challenge of people not understanding the fact that what we do in COMPLETELY legal.  Most proud of? We are most proud of that when we started this business we started with a small sawmill just to build our house and thought what it would be like to have reclaimed river lumber in our home. From there we put our heart and soul into getting our permit to do so. We are also proud that what we started, we did with our own money. A dream has become reality for us.  The future?  I have a long-term goal to hopefully grow and expand to keep giving quality lumber to our customers. I hope our kids see the hard work it has taken to get to where we are and do the same for themselves. Don't give up!  Chamber? The Chamber has set up meetings for us with several clubs around Jefferson County and introduced us to many people.