Kempfer
About Kempfer
Kempfer Sawmill, Inc. sits on the Kempfer family's Deer Park ranch land east of St Cloud in Osceola County, and the company's own history page traces it a long way back. George W. Hopkins moved from Michigan to Florida in 1888 to harvest timber and take advantage of the prairies at the headwaters of the St John's River for raising cattle, and built a large sawmill, the Union Cypress Company, south of Melbourne in the town of Hopkins, served by a railroad he laid east to Deer Park with spurs branching out across the ranch. Union Cypress burned down in 1919. In early 1980 Hopkins's great-grandsons Reed and Billy Kempfer constructed a new cypress sawmill at Deer Park as Kempfer Sawmill, Inc., and the sawmill page says the two of them run it today; the ranch alongside it began trading as Kempfer Cattle Company in 1983 and is described as running to roughly 25,000 acres. The product the mill puts forward is its Certified K-Turf playground mulch, which it describes as double ground and a 100 percent natural product containing no chemicals or artificial ingredients. Natural certified playground engineered wood fibre, it says, offers a surface for playgrounds that is safe, accessible and affordable, and is the modern choice for play area designers, schools and others concerned with the safety of children, a healthy environment and meeting government standards; product certification can be verified through IPEMA. Prices are quoted by phone. The mill is not open to the public every day and asks customers to call for an appointment. As described on kempfercattleco.com, read 23 September 2026.
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