Editing Bogalusa, Louisiana (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Bogalusa Texaco ad.png|thumb|Ad in ''Southern Engineer,'' Volume 27, 1917, promoting Bogalusa]]

Bogalusa's economy has been linked to [[lumbering]] and its byproducts since the city's founding by the [[Great Southern Lumber Company]] chartered in 1902 by the [[Charles W. Goodyear|Goodyears]] of [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref name=LSU/> The sawmill was, for many years, the largest in the world. A paper mill was added in 1918.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bogalusa Paper Mill|url=https://www.nemerofflaw.com/asbestos/asbestos-job-sites/louisiana/bogalusa-paper-mill/|website=Nemeroff Law|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412201755/https://www.nemerofflaw.com/asbestos/asbestos-job-sites/louisiana/bogalusa-paper-mill/|url-status=live}}</ref> By 1938, the Goodyear family's mill had clear cut all the virgin longleaf yellow pine within hundreds of miles of Bogalusa and after an unprofitable effort to import redwood from California, their sawmill operations at the Great Southern Lumber Company also ended. Bogalusa's industry then shifted to paper milling as Goodyear's sawmill passed onto [[Gaylord Container Corporation]] which was then bought by [[Crown Zellerbach]] in 1955. By the mid 1960s the mill was producing some 1300 tons of paper daily with four machines.<ref name="WLOS">{{Cite web|title=Why, like other small Louisiana towns, Bogalusa is slowly dying|url=https://www.nola.com/news/article_6ca32bac-98f8-11e9-9db5-57e742387089.html|last=ROBERTS III|first=FAIMON A.|date=July 5, 2019|website=NOLA.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412203359/https://www.nola.com/news/article_6ca32bac-98f8-11e9-9db5-57e742387089.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Georgia Pacific acquired the mill in 1986. Its brown paper successor owned the Bogalusa mill until 2002 when Gaylord was acquired by [[Temple-Inland]] Corporation, the area's largest employer.

The spill-over of industrial products into the [[Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana)|Pearl River]] in August 2011 resulted in Federal fines of over one million dollars. The following year, 2012, Temple-Inland was acquired by [[International Paper]] headquartered in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis, TN]] and the mill came under new ownership.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bogalusa paper mill faces federal charges|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/nation_world/article_aa3eac47-642b-598d-b312-1a67e0667e53.html|last=Amy|first=Jeff|date=December 27, 2012|website=The Advocate|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412204752/https://www.theadvocate.com/nation_world/article_aa3eac47-642b-598d-b312-1a67e0667e53.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Bogalusa mill still operates as a [[corrugated fiberboard]] plant making boxes and shipping containers. As of 2019 the plant remains the city's largest employer with 425 people.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bogalusa Mill Overview|url=http://www.internationalpaper.com/docs/default-source/english/careers/bogalusa-mill.pdf?sfvrsn=c827a533_8|date=2019|website=internationalpaper.com|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=August 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810104935/https://www.internationalpaper.com/docs/default-source/english/careers/bogalusa-mill.pdf?sfvrsn=c827a533_8|url-status=live}}</ref> However production is much less than the 1960s with only two machines now in operation.<ref name="WLOS"/>