“Two trucks, eight horses, crosscut saws, and axes.”
R.A. Yancey Lumber Corp – simply Yancey Lumber to most – had its genesis in the Great Depression when Richard A. (Dick) Yancey decided to try logging to support his young family. He used what cash he had to start with “2 trucks, 8 horses, crosscut saws, and axes.” In 1949 he set up a portable sawmill to begin cutting logs he harvested. This became the permanent site of R.A. Yancey Lumber Corp, located on VA Route 250, a major East-West highway that bisects the state from Richmond to West Virginia. Years later, family land was bought to construct I-64, the major East-West highway in Virginia that connects to I-81 and runs North-South in the Shenandoah Valley.
From these humble beginnings grew the northern most softwood mill in the United States. It remains family-owned and dedicated to the same values that R.A. Yancey Sr. lived by for 88 years.
