These included a cotton gin, saw mill, grist mill and lumberyard. Entrepreneur Charles J. Richard opened the town's lumberyard along the Southern Pacific Railroad. Later she was a stenographer and a secretary at a lumberyard. The Mead and Taft Company lumberyard once employed 500 people at the Landing. Ace Enders runs a studio in his home town of Hammonton, NJ named The Lumberyard. The site was originally the William Rutherford lumberyard. In 1877, he defeated Harry Thurston in a match held in a lumberyard in California. Eventually he became a successful lumberyard owner and realtor. Goldstein's father was a successful owner of a lumberyard. Together, they built grain flat houses and opened a lumberyard. William dropped out of high school to work in his grandfather's lumberyard. A post office, bank, lumberyard, and saloon soon followed. In 1875 Rice, Fleck & Co. opened a lumberyard. He was named after his father, a self-made lumberyard owner. In 1905, the lumberyard was destroyed by fire.