Abigail Spanberger

HENRY COUNTY, Virginia – Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced that Twain Lumber Company will invest $7.4 million to purchase and reopen the former Teal Jones sawmill operation in Henry County. The facility will create 74 new jobs and the company will purchase more than $51.2 million of Virginia-grown forest products over the next three years. …Since 2024, this facility has sat empty. …With the property secured, Twain Lumber Company will purchase new production machinery and upgrade equipment, enabling the sawmill to increase initial operational capacity from 20 million board feet annually to 108 million board feet at full capacity. …Earlier this year, Governor Spanberger signed bipartisan legislation creating the Commonwealth’s first-ever Farm & Forest Prosperity Plan. …Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Katie Frazier said “I am pleased that the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development grant program will partner with Henry County and Twain Lumber Company as it revives the forestry industry in this region.”