Bristol lumber mill hurt by changing times

For more than eight decades, the A. Johnson Company’s Bristol lumber mill rang with the sounds of logs being sawed, sorted and sold to customers. Things are quieter at the site off Route 116 lately, as the company permanently closed its lumber mill this past November and wrapped up retail sales the following month.

“The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department began to acquire land for Snake Mountain WMA in 1959 from the A. Johnson Lumber Company, which has reserved timber rights.”