Bridal Veil Oregon

For 74 years, from 1886 to 1960, Bridal Veil functioned first as the Bridal Veil Falls Lumbering Company and then from 1937 to 1960 as the Bridal Veil Lumber and Box Company, which produced wooden cheese boxes for Kraft Food Company. The mill continued to operate under other ownerships through 1988.

First established in the 1880s as Oregon’s first paper mill, the Bridal Veil site was established by the lumbering company in 1886 to mine the timber resources of Larch Mountain. A saw-mill and logging town named Palmer was built one- and one-half-miles uphill, and a wooden V-shaped flume floated the rough cut timber down the mountain to the planning mill at the railroad tracks at Bridal Veil.

In 1990, the Trust for Public Land acquired Bridal Veil and its buildings. Despite a ten-year fight from the Crown Point Country Historical Society to preserve the mill houses and buildings in Bridal Veil, the trust had them demolished in 2001. As of July 2006, the trust was preparing to sell the land and the buildings to the United States Forest Service. Over the years Bridal Veil has been whittled down to a church, a tiny post office and a cemetery.

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