Fisher is a fully intact 1898 company town built by the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, and when the mill closed in 1966, the town just stayed the way it was. The sawmill commissary, the company office, the opera house, the Victorian cottages for mill workers — all still standing, all on their original foundations, all painted the original yellow. It's the best-preserved sawmill town in the South, and about 250 people still live in the houses. Fisher hosts the annual Sawmill Days festival every May.
Quick facts
- ·Founded 1898 by the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company; the mill closed in 1966
- ·Entire town is on the National Register as a Historic District — the best-preserved sawmill town in the South
- ·The commissary, company office, opera house, and worker cottages all still stand on original foundations
- ·About 250 people still live in the original company houses
- ·Annual Sawmill Days festival each May — blacksmithing, old-time music, mill tours
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