Mabry Mill began grinding cornmeal for area residents around 1908. Two years later a sawmill was added, and by 1912 the front part of the mill was completed and included a lathe for turning out wheel hubs, a tongue and groove lathe, a planer and a jig-saw. Between 1905 and 1914 E.B. Mabry bought adjacent tracts of land, mostly for the purpose of acquiring more water power.