The area of Hunters Creek Village and most of the rest of the Memorial Villages were covered with virgin pine forest when German settlers began arriving to the area north of Buffalo Bayou in the late 1840s. By around 1860, a sawmill was operated . . . — — Map (db m169546) HM
The sawmill was powered by an eighteen-horsepower steam engine, with energy supplied to the mill floor via belts and pulleys. A cradle on iron tracks carried logs past the circular saw blade. Outside, lumber was carefully stacked to dry, then . . . — — Map (db m169548) HM