About Us

Company 

Red Hills Lumber is a family-owned business that specializes in the production of heart pine flooring, beams, and other heart pine products from mature longleaf pine. Red Hills Lumber also produces high quality longleaf southern yellow pine, and provides custom sawing, drying, and millwork services.

Our land and sawmill are located in Thomasville, in the center of the Red Hills of south Georgia. We operate on-site saws, kilns, and milling & molding equipment. Each year we sustainably harvest limited quantities of mature longleaf pine from natural forests on land that has been placed under a perpetual conservation easement.

Environmental Commitment

At Red Hills Lumber, we are committed to preserving the forest primarily as a natural environment and only secondarily as a sustainable source of high quality lumber.  We are located in the Red Hills of south Georgia, an area known for its longleaf pine forests that are home to many species of wildlife, including abundant game and numerous rare or endangered species, including red-cockaded woodpeckers, gopher tortoises, and Bachman's sparrows.

Mature longleaf pine is a rare commodity, prized for its beauty and strength. To grow it sustainably and to protect the environment, Red Hills Lumber aims to harvest less than the annual growth each year. Much of our harvest is salvaged from trees that come down in storms, while others is from sustainable marked harvests.  We even bring in trees from residential tree services provided that they meet quality standards, diverting this material from being dumped or ground into pulp.  The sustainable harvest of mature longleaf pine provides a limited supply of high quality heart pine and at the same time continues to promote the health of the ecosystem that has produced it.

History 

Heart pine is the dense inner core of large, mature southern pines, particularly longleaf pine. In Colonial times vast longleaf pine forests stretched from Virginia to Texas, and heart pine was the wood of choice for building everything from ships, to barns and factories, to elegant houses. Those days are gone and so are most of the forests, but you can still see their history on the floors of Williamsburg and Mount Vernon and in the decks of the USS Constitution.

In recent decades people who admire the beauty of this wood have torn down old factories and dredged sunken logs to recapture the beauty and durability of longleaf pine.. The Red Hills area in south Georgia still contains limited quantities of mature longleaf trees that yield true heartwood.