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A History of the Mackie Pine Oil Operation
The Mackie Pine Oil Payroll from 1935
In the same location as the Mackie Pine Oil Products plant in later years was the Delta Pine Products plant. Here is a picture of that facility in operation.
Richard Warner, in comments made on Facebook, said that the old Mackie office was a two story building located on the southwest corner of the block where the rear of the
current courthouse faces across Jefferson from the courthouse parking garage.
"Behind the old Covington Grocery & Grain was the Rosin Yard, where
hot liquid rosin was piped across Jefferson from the plant and large
metal barrels that were made on site there were filled with Hot Rosin, usually just over 500
pounds each, and after hardening were moved out in the Rosin Yard to be
loaded on boxcars for the train," Warner stated.
North of the Rosin yard was the Canning
building where workers canned turpentine.
