In the early 1900s, brothers Thomas and John Raine started the Meadow River Lumber Company in Greenbrier County. They built a sawmill, a town called Rainelle, and a railroad. The original mill burned in 1924 but was rebuilt and became the world's largest hardwood sawmill. At its peak, it cut 110,000 board feet per day. The company used portable lumber camps and horse teams to move logs until 1930, when they switched to cable skidders. They made furniture, flooring, and even shoe heels. Rainelle was a model town with good living conditions. The mill was sold to Georgia-Pacific in 1970 and rebuilt in 1975, with the original site now a shopping center.